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Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia is there a Differential Deficit?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Josh Novic ,
Daniel J. Luchins  and
Richard Perline
Josh Novic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, presently Medical Student, Stanford University Medical School
Daniel J. Luchins
Affiliation:
Manteno Mental Health Centre, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago 950 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois USA 60637
Richard Perline
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute
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Summary

Several studies have suggested that schizophrenics have a deficit in their ability to recognize the affect expressed in photos of human faces. In this study, the performance of 17 chronic schizophrenics was compared to that of 17 controls on both a test of facial affect recognition and a control task involving facial recognition. Compared with controls, chronic schizophrenics tended to perform more poorly on the test of facial affect recognition, but this difference was eliminated when facial recognition was entered as a covariate. When all test items, including those with poor reliability and discriminatory power, were included in the analysis the schizophrenics showed a significant deficit in facial affect recognition which persisted even when facial recognition was used as a covariate.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 144 , Issue 5 , May 1984 , pp. 533 - 537
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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