Integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional signals in patients with schizophrenia: Decreased nonverbal dominance

Vogel, B.; Brück, Carolin; Jacob, Heike; Eberle, Mark; Wildgruber, Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.03.050

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“…One of the earliest reviews on this topic pointed out that only the results of studies implementing ecologically valid paradigms should be used for generalization ( 10 ). In addition, the paradigm used here has been validated and successfully used in other studies on different disorders, e.g., borderline personality disorder ( 29 ) and schizophrenia ( 7 ).…”

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“…In some cases, a mismatch between the verbal and nonverbal components of emotional cues may occur, for example, when there is social pressure to not show certain feelings or if irony is being expressed. Several studies on this topic have reported a general tendency in healthy participants to weigh nonverbal information more than verbal information when confronted with a mismatch between the two [e.g., (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)]. This effect, referred to as "nonverbal dominance, " may be due to nonverbal expressions being considered more difficult to fake and therefore more likely to reveal a speaker's true emotional state (6).…”

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Reduced impact of nonverbal cues during integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional information in adults with high-functioning autism

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BackgroundWhen receiving mismatching nonverbal and verbal signals, most people tend to base their judgment regarding the current emotional state of others primarily on nonverbal information. However, individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) have been described as having difficulties interpreting nonverbal signals. Recognizing emotional states correctly is highly important for successful social interaction. Alterations in perception of nonverbal emotional cues presumably contribute to misunderstanding and impairments in social interactions.MethodsTo evaluate autism-specific differences in the relative impact of nonverbal and verbal cues, 18 adults with HFA (14 male and four female subjects, mean age 36.7 years (SD 11.4) and 18 age, gender and IQ-matched typically developed controls [14 m/4 f, mean age 36.4 years (SD 12.2)] rated the emotional state of speakers in video sequences with partly mismatching emotional signals. Standardized linear regression coefficients were calculated as a measure of the reliance on the nonverbal and verbal components of the videos for each participant. Regression coefficients were then compared between groups to test the hypothesis that autistic adults base their social evaluations less strongly on nonverbal information. Further exploratory analyses were performed for differences in valence ratings and response times.ResultsCompared to the typically developed control group, nonverbal cue reliance was reduced in adults with high-functioning autism [t(23.14) = −2.44, p = 0.01 (one-sided)]. Furthermore, the exploratory analyses showed a tendency to avoid extreme answers in the HFA group, observable via less positive as well as less negative valence ratings in response to emotional expressions of increasingly strong valence. In addition, response time was generally longer in HFA compared to the control group [F (1, 33) = 10.65, p = 0.004].ConclusionThese findings suggest reduced impact of nonverbal cues and longer processing times in the analysis of multimodal emotional information, which may be associated with a subjectively lower relevance of this information and/or more processing difficulties for people with HFA. The less extreme answering tendency may indicate a lower sensitivity for nonverbal valence expression in HFA or result from a tendency to avoid incorrect answers when confronted with greater uncertainty in interpreting emotional states.

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Reduced impact of nonverbal cues during integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional information in adults with high-functioning autism

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“…Considering multimodal cues, information about the emotions of others is usually conveyed via facial and vocal cues simultaneously in everyday life [ 16 ], and it has been demonstrated in healthy subjects that audiovisual cues facilitate emotion recognition at the level of higher recognition accuracy as well as faster response-times [ 17 ]. However, so far research in patients with schizophrenia has mostly focused on studying perception of unimodal social cues, whereas only very few studies evaluated perception of audiovisual nonverbal emotional signals [ 18 – 21 ].…”

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Effects of cue modality and emotional category on recognition of nonverbal emotional signals in schizophrenia

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BackgroundImpaired interpretation of nonverbal emotional cues in patients with schizophrenia has been reported in several studies and a clinical relevance of these deficits for social functioning has been assumed. However, it is unclear to what extent the impairments depend on specific emotions or specific channels of nonverbal communication.MethodsHere, the effect of cue modality and emotional categories on accuracy of emotion recognition was evaluated in 21 patients with schizophrenia and compared to a healthy control group (n = 21). To this end, dynamic stimuli comprising speakers of both genders in three different sensory modalities (auditory, visual and audiovisual) and five emotional categories (happy, alluring, neutral, angry and disgusted) were used.ResultsPatients with schizophrenia were found to be impaired in emotion recognition in comparison to the control group across all stimuli. Considering specific emotions more severe deficits were revealed in the recognition of alluring stimuli and less severe deficits in the recognition of disgusted stimuli as compared to all other emotions.Regarding cue modality the extent of the impairment in emotional recognition did not significantly differ between auditory and visual cues across all emotional categories. However, patients with schizophrenia showed significantly more severe disturbances for vocal as compared to facial cues when sexual interest is expressed (alluring stimuli), whereas more severe disturbances for facial as compared to vocal cues were observed when happiness or anger is expressed.ConclusionOur results confirmed that perceptual impairments can be observed for vocal as well as facial cues conveying various social and emotional connotations. The observed differences in severity of impairments with most severe deficits for alluring expressions might be related to specific difficulties in recognizing the complex social emotional information of interpersonal intentions as compared to “basic” emotional states.Therefore, future studies evaluating perception of nonverbal cues should consider a broader range of social and emotional signals beyond basic emotions including attitudes and interpersonal intentions. Identifying specific domains of social perception particularly prone for misunderstandings in patients with schizophrenia might allow for a refinement of interventions aiming at improving social functioning.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-016-0913-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…another aspect Vogel B et al(2016) investigates the ability of the patients to associate between both verbal & nonverbal cues[8]. Different video shows were offered to twenty one patients versus 21 control subject.…”

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Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: A Review Study

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AlQahtani²

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Social cognition includes all operations encountered in the process of perceiving, understanding & production of appropriate reactions while confronting with others. These include: social awareness, theory of mind, attributive style, and emotion processing. Social cognition skills have been recognized as a vital component in the rehabilitation process for schizophrenic persons, its strong contributors in social function among individual suffering from schizophrenia. The purpose of this review is to appraise various researches about social cognition and its correlates in addition to evaluating various cognitive interventions targeted toward improving social cognition function among patients group and to find the best techniques to ameliorate social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Databases were searched from the period from the year 2000 to October 2018. The search terms used were "Social cognition", emotional management program, schizophrenia. A total of 85 articles were identified and those who meet inclusion criteria including 27 articles. Finding indicates the efficacy of social intervention that targets cognitive aspect in functional abilities of schizophrenic patients and also emotion processing which are significant mediators of social performance aptitudes in patients group.

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Integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional signals in patients with schizophrenia: Decreased nonverbal dominance

Cited by 6 publications

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Reduced impact of nonverbal cues during integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional information in adults with high-functioning autism

Reduced impact of nonverbal cues during integration of verbal and nonverbal emotional information in adults with high-functioning autism

Effects of cue modality and emotional category on recognition of nonverbal emotional signals in schizophrenia

Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: A Review Study

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