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Judgement of facial affect among depressives and schizophrenics
Author(s) -
Mandal M. K.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1986.tb00676.x
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , affect (linguistics) , stimulus (psychology) , judgement , facial expression , psychosis , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , social psychology , psychiatry , communication , political science , law , medicine
Forty depressives, 48 schizophrenics and 105 non‐patient controls were asked to judge the mutual similarities amongst six different facial affects depicted in photographs. Inter‐stimulus distances suggest two dimensions of affect operative in controls: pleasantness‐unpleasantness and arousal‐non‐arousal. Depressives' judgements correspond to the former dimension whilst schizophrenics' judgements correspond to the latter.