Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Volume number: 5

ISSN: 1664-1078

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01262

Publisher: Frontiers Media

Abstract: 
Much recent research has shown that personality disorders are associated with an altered emotion perception. Whereas most of this research was conducted with stimuli such as faces, the present study examined possible differences in the perception of emotions expressed via body language and body movements. 30 patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and 30 non-patients observed video scenes of emotional human interactions conveyed by point-light displays, rated the depicted valence, and judged their confidence in this rating. Patients with BPD showed no altered emotion perception (i.e., no biased perception in either a negative or a positive direction). They did not perceive and evaluate depicted emotions as being more extreme than healthy controls. However, patients with BPD showed less confidence in their perception of depicted emotions, especially when these were difficult to identify. The findings extend insights on altered emotion perception in persons with BPD to include the field of body movements.

Harvard Citation style: Kaletsch, M., Krueger, B., Pilgramm, S., Stark, R., Lis, S., Gallhofer, B., et al. (2014) Borderline personality disorder is associated with lower confidence in perception of emotional body movements, Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 1262. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01262

APA Citation style: Kaletsch, M., Krueger, B., Pilgramm, S., Stark, R., Lis, S., Gallhofer, B., Zentgraf, K., Munzert, J., & Sammer, G. (2014). Borderline personality disorder is associated with lower confidence in perception of emotional body movements. Frontiers in Psychology. 5, Article 1262. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01262