From recognition to expression: extending cardiovascular emotional dampening to facial expressions under elevated blood pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cardiovascular Emotional Dampening (CED) refers to blunted emotional responsiveness in individuals with elevated blood pressure (BP), but research has exclusively focused on how such individuals perceive others' emotions. Given evidence that the ability to produce facial expressions of emotions is closely tied to emotion recognition via shared neural mechanisms, examining expressive deficits in CED could reveal additional pathways linking elevated BP with emotional communication. This study examined whether individuals with higher systolic and diastolic BP exhibit reduced accuracy and intensity when generating prototypical facial expressions of emotion.

Methods

Participants (N = 74) across normotensive (n=33), prehypertensive (n=21), and hypertensive (n=20) cate

SUBMITTER: Bhowmick S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12627053 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature