title: Don't Praise Me, Don't Chase Me: Emotional Reactivity to Positive and Negative Social-Evaluative Videos in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder.
abstract: Diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) include interpersonal problems and high reactivity to negative social interactions. However, experimental studies on these symptoms are scarce, and it remains unclear whether reactivity is also altered in response to positive social interactions. To simulate such situations, the present study used videographic stimuli (E.Vids; Blechert, Schwitalla, & Wilhelm, 2013) in which actors express rejecting, neutral, or appreciating sentences. Twenty BPD patients and 20 healthy controls rated their emotional responses to these on pleasantness, arousal, and 11 specific emotions. In addition to elevated reactivity to negative E.Vids, patients with BPD showed marked reduction in pleasantness responses to positive E.Vids. Furthermore, they exhibited less pride, happiness, feelings of approval, and attraction/love in response to positive videos and more anger, anxiety, embarrassment, contempt, guilt, feelings of disapproval/rejection, and sadness to negative videos. Interestingly, BPD patients also reported negative emotions in response to positive videos. Implications for psychotherapy and research are discussed.
authors: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, and Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg.
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Reichenberger
authors: Schön Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
authors: Johannes Josef
authors: JJ
authors: Eibl
authors: University Hospital Zurich.
authors: Monique
authors: M
authors: Pfaltz
authors: Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Salzburg.
authors: Frank H
authors: FH
authors: Wilhelm
authors: Schön Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
authors: Ulrich
authors: U
authors: Voderholzer
authors: Schön Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Hillert
authors: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, and Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg.
authors: Jens
authors: J
authors: Blechert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012938:Social Perception; D014741:Video Recording; D055815:Young Adult