Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2013

Seiten: 19-35

Zeitschrift: Journal of Personality Disorders

Bandnummer: 27

Heftnummer: 1

ISSN: 0885-579X

eISSN: 1943-2763

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2013.27.1.19

Verlag: Guilford Press

Abstract: 
A heightened sensitivity towards negative emotional stimuli has been described for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We investigated whether a faster and more accurate detection of negatively valent information in BPD can be confirmed by means of a visual search task which required subjects to detect a face with an incongruent emotional expression within a crowd of neutral faces. Twenty eight BPD patients and 28 nonpatients were asked to indicate whether a set of schematic neutral faces (3 x 3, 4 x 4 matrices) contained a happy or an angry face. Besides valence, the intensity of the target's emotion was varied in two steps. BPD patients and nonpatients both demonstrated an anger-superiority effect. However, no higher sensitivity towards negative stimuli was observed in BPD compared to nonpatients. BPD patients seem to rely to a stronger extent on controlled, i.e., serial, attention demanding processes when searching more subtle social-emotional information with positive valence.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Hagenhoff, M., Franzen, N., Gerstner, L., Koppe, G., Sarnmer, G., Netter, P., et al. (2013) REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: EFFECTS OF EMOTIONAL VALENCE AND INTENSITY, Journal of Personality Disorders, 27(1), pp. 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2013.27.1.19

APA-Zitierstil: Hagenhoff, M., Franzen, N., Gerstner, L., Koppe, G., Sarnmer, G., Netter, P., Gallhofer, B., & Lis, S. (2013). REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: EFFECTS OF EMOTIONAL VALENCE AND INTENSITY. Journal of Personality Disorders. 27(1), 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2013.27.1.19