“…Poor emotion recognition in schizophrenia has been found to be associated with poor social functioning [8][9][10] . There is still contest about the question, however, whether poor emotion recognition in schizophrenia is more profound for negative emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, and disgust 1,6,11,12 , or whether patients with schizophrenia exhibit a more global deficit in emotion recognition 13,14 . Also, the question of whether or not the emotion recognition deficit in schizophrenia is limited to facial expressions 15 or the consequence of a more generalized performance deficit 16,17 remains to some extent elusive.…”