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Recognition of facial affect in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Source :
- Journal of personality disorders. 22(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have been described as emotionally hyperresponsive, especially to anger and fear in social contexts. The aim was to investigate whether BPD patients are more sensitive but less accurate in terms of basic emotion recognition, and show a bias towards perceiving anger and fear when evaluating ambiguous facial expressions. Twenty-five women with BPD were compared with healthy controls on two different facial emotion recognition tasks. The first task allowed the assessment of the subjective detection threshold as well as the number of evaluation errors on six basic emotions. The second task assessed a response bias to blends of basic emotions. BPD patients showed no general deficit on the affect recognition task, but did show enhanced learning over the course of the experiment. For ambiguous emotional stimuli, we found a bias towards the perception of anger in the BPD patients but not towards fear. BPD patients are accurate in perceiving facial emotions, and are probably more sensitive to familiar facial expressions. They show a bias towards perceiving anger, when socio-affective cues are ambiguous. Interpersonal training should focus on the differentiation of ambiguous emotion in order to reduce a biased appraisal of others.
- Subjects :
- Adult
media_common.quotation_subject
Emotion classification
Anger
Affect (psychology)
behavioral disciplines and activities
Developmental psychology
2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health
Borderline Personality Disorder
Perception
mental disorders
medicine
Reaction Time
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Borderline personality disorder
media_common
Facial expression
Analysis of Variance
10093 Institute of Psychology
3203 Clinical Psychology
Cognition
Fear
Middle Aged
Response bias
medicine.disease
Facial Expression
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Affect
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Female
150 Psychology
Psychology
psychological phenomena and processes
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0885579X
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of personality disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....65a630ec9c9eb81181aab3f11b464fb9