title: Neuroticism and facial emotion recognition in healthy adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was to examine whether healthy individuals with higher levels of neuroticism, a robust independent predictor of psychopathology, exhibit altered facial emotion recognition performance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Facial emotion recognition accuracy was investigated in 104 healthy adults using the Degraded Facial Affect Recognition Task (DFAR). Participants' degree of neuroticism was estimated using neuroticism scales extracted from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A significant negative correlation between the degree of neuroticism and the percentage of correct answers on DFAR was found only for happy facial expression (significant after applying Bonferroni correction).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Altered sensitivity to the emotional context represents a useful and easy way to obtain cognitive phenotype that correlates strongly with inter-individual variations in neuroticism linked to stress vulnerability and subsequent psychopathology. Present findings could have implication in early intervention strategies and staging models in psychiatry.
authors: School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors: Sanja
authors: S
authors: Andric
authors: School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.|Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors: Nadja P
authors: NP
authors: Maric
authors: Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors: Goran
authors: G
authors: Knezevic
authors: Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors: Marina
authors: M
authors: Mihaljevic
authors: Special Hospital for Psychiatric Disorders Kovin, Kovin, Serbia.
authors: Tijana
authors: T
authors: Mirjanic
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, USA.|Departments of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, USA.
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Velthorst
authors: South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.|King's Health Partners, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
authors: Jim
authors: J
authors: van Os
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D064368:Healthy Volunteers / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000075384:Neuroticism; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: facial emotion recognition; healthy adult; neuroticism