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Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study.

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Rosenthal, MZ; Kim, K; Herr, NR; Smoski, MJ; Cheavens, JS; Lynch, TR; Kosson, DS
Published in: Personal Disord
October 2011

The aim of this preliminary study was to examine whether individuals with avoidant personality disorder (APD) could be characterized by deficits in the classification of dynamically presented facial emotional expressions. Using a community sample of adults with APD (n = 17) and non-APD controls (n = 16), speed and accuracy of facial emotional expression recognition was investigated in a task that morphs facial expressions from neutral to prototypical expressions (Multi-Morph Facial Affect Recognition Task; Blair, Colledge, Murray, & Mitchell, 2001). Results indicated that individuals with APD were significantly more likely than controls to make errors when classifying fully expressed fear. However, no differences were found between groups in the speed to correctly classify facial emotional expressions. The findings are some of the first to investigate facial emotional processing in a sample of individuals with APD and point to an underlying deficit in processing social cues that may be involved in the maintenance of APD.

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Personal Disord

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EISSN

1949-2723

Publication Date

October 2011

Volume

2

Issue

4

Start / End Page

327 / 334

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Personality Disorders
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Fear
  • Facial Expression
 

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Rosenthal, M. Z., Kim, K., Herr, N. R., Smoski, M. J., Cheavens, J. S., Lynch, T. R., & Kosson, D. S. (2011). Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study. Personal Disord, 2(4), 327–334. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023672
Rosenthal, M Zachary, Kwanguk Kim, Nathaniel R. Herr, Moria J. Smoski, Jennifer S. Cheavens, Thomas R. Lynch, and David S. Kosson. “Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study.Personal Disord 2, no. 4 (October 2011): 327–34. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023672.
Rosenthal MZ, Kim K, Herr NR, Smoski MJ, Cheavens JS, Lynch TR, et al. Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study. Personal Disord. 2011 Oct;2(4):327–34.
Rosenthal, M. Zachary, et al. “Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study.Personal Disord, vol. 2, no. 4, Oct. 2011, pp. 327–34. Pubmed, doi:10.1037/a0023672.
Rosenthal MZ, Kim K, Herr NR, Smoski MJ, Cheavens JS, Lynch TR, Kosson DS. Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary study. Personal Disord. 2011 Oct;2(4):327–334.

Published In

Personal Disord

DOI

EISSN

1949-2723

Publication Date

October 2011

Volume

2

Issue

4

Start / End Page

327 / 334

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Personality Disorders
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Fear
  • Facial Expression