title: Magical ideation associated social cognition in adolescents: signs of a negative facial affect recognition deficit.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Studies provide evidence for impaired social cognition in schizotypy and its association with negative symptoms. Cognitive features related to magical ideation - a component of the positive dimension of schizotypy - have been less investigated. We aimed to assess social cognitive functioning among adolescents with high magical ideation scores, mainly focusing on face and emotion recognition.
  
  
  METHODS
  22 subjects with magical ideation scale scores above the cut off level and 22 controls with lowest scores from among 250 students screened with this scale were included in the study. A face and emotion recognition n-back test, the empathy quotient, theory of mind tests and the Physical Anhedonia Scale were applied to both magical ideation and control groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The magical ideation group performed significantly worse than controls on both face and emotion recognition tests. Emotion recognition performance was found to be affected by memory load, with sadness, among emotions, revealing a difference between the two groups. Empathy and theory of mind tests did not distinguish the magical ideation group from controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings provide evidence for a deficit in negative emotion recognition affected by memory load associated with magical ideation in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yenisehir-YAHSIHAN, Kirikkale, Turkey 71450.
authors.forename: Derya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Canli
authors.affiliation: Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yenisehir-YAHSIHAN, Kirikkale, Turkey 71450. Electronic address: haticozdemir@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hatice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.affiliation: Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yenisehir-YAHSIHAN, Kirikkale, Turkey 71450.
authors.forename: Orhan Murat
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Kocak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D004645:Empathy; D000066499:Facial Recognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic; D008297:Male; D012919:Social Behavior; D056345:Theory of Mind; D013850:Thinking; D055815:Young Adult