title: Social priming increases nonverbal expressive behaviors in schizophrenia.
abstract: Semantic priming tasks are classically used to influence and implicitly promote target behaviors. Recently, several studies have demonstrated that prosocial semantic priming modulated feelings of social affiliation. The main aim of this study was to determine whether inducing feelings of social affiliation using priming tasks could modulate nonverbal social behaviors in schizophrenia. We used the Scrambled Sentence Task to prime schizophrenia patients according to three priming group conditions: pro-social, non-social or anti-social. Forty-five schizophrenia patients, diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR, were randomly assigned to one of the three priming groups of 15 participants. We evaluated nonverbal social behaviors using the Motor-Affective subscale of the Motor-Affective-Social-Scale. Results showed that schizophrenia patients with pro-social priming had significantly more nonverbal behaviors than schizophrenia patients with anti-social and non-social priming conditions. Schizophrenia patient behaviors are affected by social priming. Our results have several clinical implications for the rehabilitation of social skills impairments frequently encountered among individuals with schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; Epsylon, Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behaviors, Department of Sport Sciences, Psychology and Medicine, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Del-Monte
authors.affiliation: University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; Epsylon, Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behaviors, Department of Sport Sciences, Psychology and Medicine, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raffard
authors.affiliation: University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; INSERM U-1061, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Capdevielle
authors.affiliation: Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Robin N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Salesse
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, United States of America.
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Varlet
authors.affiliation: Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Benoît G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Bardy
authors.affiliation: University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France; INSERM U-1061, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Boulenger
authors.affiliation: Epsylon, Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behaviors, Department of Sport Sciences, Psychology and Medicine, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gély-Nargeot
authors.affiliation: Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011897:Random Allocation; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012919:Social Behavior