Journal article

REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: EFFECTS OF EMOTIONAL VALENCE AND INTENSITY


Authors listHagenhoff, M.; Franzen, N.; Gerstner, L.; Koppe, G.; Sarnmer, G.; Netter, P.; Gallhofer, B.; Lis, S.

Publication year2013

Pages19-35

JournalJournal of Personality Disorders

Volume number27

Issue number1

ISSN0885-579X

eISSN1943-2763

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2013.27.1.19

PublisherGuilford 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.



Citation Styles

Harvard Citation styleHagenhoff, 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 Citation styleHagenhoff, 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



Keywords


ANGER SUPERIORITYANGRYCROWD

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