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01-10-2008 | Original Article

Interpersonal Sensitivity and Response Bias in Social Phobia and Depression: Labeling Emotional Expressions

Auteurs: Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Edna Foa, Yael Vaknin, Sofi Marom, Haggai Hermesh

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 5/2008

Abstract

Interpersonal sensitivity to ambiguous facial expressions of emotions was examined using individual growth modeling. Generalized socially phobic (n = 54), depressed (n = 44), comorbidly socially phobic and depressed individuals (n = 39), and non-clinical controls (n = 65) were assessed on an emotion labeling task. Patients were as good as controls in labeling happy expressions as positive, and better than controls in labeling faint angry and sad expressions as negative. Depression and social anxiety (SA) were positively correlated with a response bias, and negatively correlated with sensitivity, to angry expressions. Depression was also correlated with higher sensitivity, and SA with higher response bias, to sad expressions. The effects of depression and SA on the identification of negative expressions were sub-additive. Finally, depression, but not SA, was associated with longer examination of happy, but not angry emotional expressions. Implications of these findings for the understanding of interpersonal impairments in social phobia and depression are discussed.

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Titel: Interpersonal Sensitivity and Response Bias in Social Phobia and Depression: Labeling Emotional Expressions
Auteurs: Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Edna Foa
Yael Vaknin
Sofi Marom
Haggai Hermesh
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 5/2008
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-008-9208-8

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