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Judgement of Emotional Expression in Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Cutting
J. Cutting*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5
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Summary

Acute schizophrenics, chronic schizophrenics, psychiatric controls and patients with a depressive illness were asked to judge which of two faces in photographs was the more friendly. Acute schizophrenics disagreed significantly with the other three groups of subjects whilst agreeing with them on a control task of perceptual judgement involving colours. In a second experiment a new group of acute schizophrenics disagreed with remitted psychotics and psychotic depressives in judging friendliness and meanness but agreed with these control groups in judging age of the faces. The findings are presented as a potentially fruitful area for research on psychological deficits in schizophrenia.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 1 , July 1981 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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