title: Social Cognition in a Clinical Sample of Personality Disorder Patients.
abstract: Social cognition was assessed in a clinical sample of personality disorder (PD) stable patients receiving ambulatory treatment (N = 17) and healthy matched controls (N = 17) using tests of recognition of emotions in faces and eyes, in a test of social faux pas and in theory of mind (ToM) stories. Results indicated that when compared with healthy controls, individuals with PD showed a clear tendency to obtain lower scoring in tasks assessing recognition of emotion in faces (T = -2.602, p = 0.014), eyes (T = -3.593, p = 0.001), ToM stories (T = -4.706, p = 0.000), and Faux pas (T = -2.227, p = 0.035). In the present pilot study, PD individuals with a normal cognitive efficiency showed an impaired performance at social cognition assessment including emotion recognition and ToM.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Nuerociencias Cognitivas, Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile.
authors.forename: Amparo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Tagle
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI) , Buenos Aires , Argentina.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Costanzo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI) , Buenos Aires , Argentina.
authors.forename: Delfina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Achával
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI) , Buenos Aires , Argentina.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guinjoan
keywords: emotion recognition; empathy; personality disorders; social cognition; theory of mind