Interpersonal problems and recognition of facial emotions in healthy individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recognition of emotions in faces is important for successful social interaction. Results from previous research based on clinical samples suggest that difficulties in identifying threat-related or negative emotions can go along with interpersonal problems. The present study examined whether associations between interpersonal difficulties and emotion decoding ability can be found in healthy individuals. Our analysis was focused on two main dimensions of interpersonal problems: agency (social dominance) and communion (social closeness).

Materials and methods

We constructed an emotion recognition task with facial expressions depicting six basic emotions (happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, sadness, and fear) in frontal and profile view, which was administered to 190

SUBMITTER: Suslow T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10149975 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature