The Association of Emotionally Congruent Responses with Emotion Recognition Accuracy after Brain Injury

Aim of the research The literature on emotion recognition from facial expressions shows significant differences in recognition ability depending on the proposed stimulus. Indeed, affective information is not distributed uniformly in the face and recent studies showed the importance of the mouth and the eye regions for a correct recognition. However, previous studies used mainly facial expressions presented frontally and studies which used facial expressions in profile view used a between-subjects design or children faces as stimuli. The present research aims to investigate differences in emotion recognition between faces presented in frontal and in profile views by using a within subjects experimental design. Method The sample comprised 132 Italian university students (88 female, Mage = 24.27 years, SD = 5.89). Face stimuli displayed both frontally and in profile were selected from the KDEF set. Two emotion-specific recognition accuracy scores, viz., frontal and in profile, were computed from the average of correct responses for each emotional expression. In addition, viewing times and response times (RT) were registered. Results Frontally presented facial expressions of fear, anger, and sadness were significantly better recognized than facial expressions of the same emotions in profile while no differences were found in the recognition of the other emotions. Longer viewing times were also found when faces expressing fear and anger were presented in profile. In the present study, an impairment in recognition accuracy was observed only for those emotions which rely mostly on the eye regions.

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Exploring Emotion Recognition and the Understanding of Others’ Unspoken Thoughts and Feelings when Narrating Self-Experienced Emotional Events

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior ◽

10.1007/s10919-020-00340-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 67-81

Author(s):

Anders Flykt ◽

Tina Hörlin ◽

Frida Linder ◽

Anna-Karin Wennstig ◽

Gabriella Sayeler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Clinical Psychology ◽

Recognition Accuracy ◽

Social Work Students ◽

Empathic Accuracy ◽

Emotional Event ◽

Emotion Decoding ◽

Emotional Events

AbstractEmotion decoding competence can be addressed in different ways. In this study, clinical psychology, nursing, or social work students narrated a 2.5–3 min story about a self-experienced emotional event and also listened to another student’s story. Participants were video recorded during the session. Participants then annotated their own recordings regarding their own thoughts and feelings, and they rated recordings by other participants regarding their thoughts and feelings [empathic accuracy, EA, task]. Participants further completed two emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) tests that differed in complexity. The results showed that even though significant correlations were found between the emotion recognition tests, the tests did not positively predict empathic accuracy scores. These results raise questions regarding the extent to which ERA tests tap the competencies that underlie EA. Different possibilities to investigate the consequences of method choices are discussed.

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Facial emotion recognition accuracy and child physical abuse: An experiment and a meta-analysis.

Psychology of Violence ◽

10.1037/a0036014 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 154-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Michael F. Wagner ◽

Joel S. Milner ◽

Randy J. McCarthy ◽

Julie L. Crouch ◽

Thomas R. McCanne ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotion Recognition ◽

Physical Abuse ◽

Recognition Accuracy ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Child Physical Abuse ◽

Facial Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Emotion

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Facial Emotion Recognition and Executive Functions in Fibromyalgia

Pain Medicine ◽

10.1093/pm/pnab024 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Cristina Muñoz Ladrón de Guevara ◽

Gustavo A Reyes del Paso ◽

María José Fernández-Serrano ◽

Stefan Duschek

Keyword(s):

Executive Function ◽

Executive Functions ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Recognition Accuracy ◽

Cognitive Task ◽

Medication Use ◽

Human Interaction ◽

Facial Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Emotion ◽

Control Mechanisms

Abstract Objective The ability to accurately identify facial expressions of emotions is crucial in human interaction. While a previous study suggested deficient emotional face recognition in patients with fibromyalgia, not much is known about the origin of this impairment. Against this background, this study investigated the role of executive functions. Executive functions refer to cognitive control mechanisms enabling implementation and coordination of basic mental operations. Deficits in this domain are prevalent in fibromyalgia. Methods Fifty-two fibromyalgia patients and thirty-two healthy individuals completed the Ekman-60 Faces Test, which requires classification of facial displays of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. They also completed eight tasks assessing the executive function components of shifting, updating and inhibition. Effects of comorbid depression and anxiety disorders, and medication use, were tested in stratified analyses of patient subgroups. Results Patients made more errors overall than controls in classifying the emotional expressions. Moreover, their recognition accuracy correlated positively with performance on most of the executive function tasks. Emotion recognition did not vary as a function of comorbid psychiatric disorders or medication use. Conclusions The study supports impaired facial emotion recognition in fibromyalgia, which may contribute to the interaction problems and poor social functioning characterizing this condition. Facial emotion recognition is regarded as a complex process, which may be particularly reliant on efficient coordination of various basic operations by executive functions. As such, the correlations between cognitive task performance and recognition accuracy suggest that deficits in higher cognitive functions underlie impaired emotional communication in fibromyalgia.

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Social Behavior and Impairments in Social Cognition Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s1355617717000182 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 400-411 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Michelle May ◽

Maarten Milders ◽

Bruce Downey ◽

Maggie Whyte ◽

Vanessa Higgins ◽

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Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Social Behavior ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Injury Severity ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Response Selection ◽

Community Integration ◽

Post Injury

AbstractObjectives:The negative effect of changes in social behavior following traumatic brain injury (TBI) are known, but much less is known about the neuropsychological impairments that may underlie and predict these changes. The current study investigated possible associations between post-injury behavior and neuropsychological competencies of emotion recognition, understanding intentions, and response selection, that have been proposed as important for social functioning.Methods:Forty participants with TBI and 32 matched healthy participants completed a battery of tests assessing the three functions of interest. In addition, self- and proxy reports of pre- and post-injury behavior, mood, and community integration were collected.Results:The TBI group performed significantly poorer than the comparison group on all tasks of emotion recognition, understanding intention, and on one task of response selection. Ratings of current behavior suggested significant changes in the TBI group relative to before the injury and showed significantly poorer community integration and interpersonal behavior than the comparison group. Of the three functions considered, emotion recognition was associated with both post-injury behavior and community integration and this association could not be fully explained by injury severity, time since injury, or education.Conclusions:The current study confirmed earlier findings of associations between emotion recognition and post-TBI behavior, providing partial evidence for models proposing emotion recognition as one of the pre-requisites for adequate social functioning. (JINS, 2017,23, 400–411)

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Facial Affect Recognition in Myasthenia Gravis

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1017/sjp.2013.59 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Esther Lázaro ◽

Imanol Amayra ◽

Juan Francisco López-Paz ◽

Amaia Jometón ◽

Natalia Martín ◽

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Keyword(s):

Reaction Time ◽

Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Recognition Accuracy ◽

Facial Affect ◽

Facial Emotion Recognition ◽

Facial Emotion ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Emotional Facial Expressions ◽

Clinical Neurological Examination

AbstractThe assessment of facial expression is an important aspect of a clinical neurological examination, both as an indicator of a mood disorder and as a sign of neurological damage. To date, although studies have been conducted on certain psychosocial aspects of myasthenia, such as quality of life and anxiety, and on neuropsychological aspects such as memory, no studies have directly assessed facial emotion recognition accuracy. The aim of this study was to assess the facial emotion recognition accuracy (fear, surprise, sadness, happiness, anger, and disgust), empathy, and reaction time of patients with myasthenia. Thirty-five patients with myasthenia and 36 healthy controls were tested for their ability to differentiate emotional facial expressions. Participants were matched with respect to age, gender, and education level. Their ability to differentiate emotional facial expressions was evaluated using the computer-based program Feel Test. The data showed that myasthenic patients scored significantly lower (p < 0.05) than healthy controls in the total Feel score, fear, surprise, and higher reaction time. The findings suggest that the ability to recognize facial affect may be reduced in individuals with myasthenia.

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