Neuroticism and facial emotion recognition in healthy adults

Andric, Sanja; Maric, Nadja P.; Knežević, Goran; Mihaljević, Marina; Mirjanić, Tijana; Velthorst, Eva; Os, Jim van

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“…Based on these two results, participants with high-neuroticism showed a delay in detecting facial expressions compared to participants with low-neuroticism, although high-neuroticism participants experienced higher arousal in response to these facial expressions than did low-neuroticism participants. Our findings are in line with previous studies showing that high-neuroticism participants were less accurate in their recognition of emotional facial expressions [ 7 ], or had less gaze maintenance to the eye regions of facial expressions of others [ 8 , 9 ] compared to low-neuroticism participants. Taken together, it is suggested that people who show high levels of neuroticism avoid emotional signals in facial expressions to protect themselves from possible, but unfounded, worries [ 6 ].…”

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“…Some studies have shown that individuals with high-neuroticism tend to avoid emotional facial expressions. For example, scores on neuroticism were negatively related to accuracy in recognizing facial emotions [ 7 ]. High-neuroticism participants looked at the eyes of emotional facial expressions for shorter durations [ 8 ] or had less gaze maintenance to the eyes of fearful faces [ 9 ] than low-neuroticism participants.…”

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Neuroticism Delays Detection of Facial Expressions

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The rapid detection of emotional signals from facial expressions is fundamental for human social interaction. The personality factor of neuroticism modulates the processing of various types of emotional facial expressions; however, its effect on the detection of emotional facial expressions remains unclear. In this study, participants with high- and low-neuroticism scores performed a visual search task to detect normal expressions of anger and happiness, and their anti-expressions within a crowd of neutral expressions. Anti-expressions contained an amount of visual changes equivalent to those found in normal expressions compared to neutral expressions, but they were usually recognized as neutral expressions. Subjective emotional ratings in response to each facial expression stimulus were also obtained. Participants with high-neuroticism showed an overall delay in the detection of target facial expressions compared to participants with low-neuroticism. Additionally, the high-neuroticism group showed higher levels of arousal to facial expressions compared to the low-neuroticism group. These data suggest that neuroticism modulates the detection of emotional facial expressions in healthy participants; high levels of neuroticism delay overall detection of facial expressions and enhance emotional arousal in response to facial expressions.

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Neuroticism Delays Detection of Facial Expressions

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“…happiness, anger, fear, disgust, sadness) has also been repeatedly reported for this group of patients [27]. Moreover, the recent study conducted by our research group reported altered recognition of happy facial expression even in depression-vulnerable healthy individuals [28]. It seems that biased processing of positive emotions increases the susceptibility to negative affective states and therefore it should be a target for specific preventive strategies.…”

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How social cognition deficits affect psychopathology: A neuroscientific approach

Andric¹,

Maric-Bojovic²

2015

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Humans are substantially a social species. Effective mental treatment cannot be obtained without addressing social behavior. Social cognition refers to the mental processes underlying social interactions, which allow individuals to make sense of the other peoples' behavior, to decipher emotions on their faces, and to draw conclusions about their intentions. The core domains of this multifaceted concept are theory of mind, social cue perception, attributional style and emotion perception/ processing.The amygdala, orbital frontal cortex and temporal cortex areas are typically activated during the processing of information within social-emotional context. The aforementioned brain areas are recognized as the major components of the so-called "social brain"-specialized for the social interactions in humans.Adequate perceiving and processing of the social information is essential for an effective social functioning, which becomes obvious when it goes awry. Various psychiatric disorders are characterized by social cognitive deficits, among which schizophrenias, depression-anxiety and autism spectrum disorders were most broadly studied to date. Growing evidence suggest that these deficits underlie poor functional outcomes in patients with mental health impairments and have an important role in the initiation and maintenance of the disorders' symptoms.One of the most important goals of social neuroscience research is to provide a treatment intervention that will improve patients' social cognitive skills and the functional outcome.All together, the present review aims to provide a contemporary overview of the concept of social cognition, to outline its relation to psychopathology, and to discuss the implications for clinical practice and treatment.Key words: social cognition, psychopathology, treatment implications Sažetak Čovek je društveno biće. Za postizanje i očuvanje mentalnog zdravlja neophodno je imati očuvanu socijalnu kogniciju. Socijalna kognicija obuhvata skup mentalnih procesa koji čine osnovu socijalnih interakcija, a koji omogućavaju razumevanje ponašanja drugih ljudi, shvatanje značaja izraza njihovih lica, i procenu namera osoba iz okruženja. Ključne domene ovog složenog koncepta predstavljaju: teorija uma, opažanje socijalnih znakova, kauzalna atribucija, opažanje i procesuiranje emocija. Obradu informacija socijalno-emocionalnog konteksta karakteriše aktivacija amigdala, orbitofrontalnog i temporalnog korteksa, glavnih regiona takozvanog "društvenog mozga", specijalizovanog za socijalne interakcije svojstvene ljudima.Značaj ispravnog opažanja i tumačenja socijalnih znakova, funkcija neophodnih za uspešnu socijalnu adaptaciju, dolazi do izražaja kada su ove sposobnosti narušene. Brojne psihijatrijske poremećaje prati deficit socijalne kognicije, a među njima ispadi su najpodrobnije ispitivani u grupi shizofrenija, depresivnom poremeća-ju, autizmu, itd. Zanimljivo je da sve više naučnih dokaza ukazuje da ovi ispadi imaju važnu ulogu u nastanku i održavanju određenih simptoma psihijatrijskih bolesti...

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“…To our knowledge, even though there do exist some studies that have identified an association between facial emotion perception/recognition and personality traits (Andric et al, 2015;Mardaga and Iakimova, 2014), no studies to date have explored associations between these factors in BSD patients. It has been found that personality traits such as novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence and self-directedness play an important function in the development, maintenance and prognosis of BSDs (Atiye, Miettunen, and Raevuori-Helkamaa, 2015;Fassino, Amianto, Gramaglia, Facchini, and Abbate Daga, 2004).…”

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The Influence of Personality Traits on Emotion Expression in Bulimic Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot Study

Giner-Bartolomé

Steward

Wolz

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Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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Facial expressions are critical in forming social bonds and in signalling one's emotional state to others. In eating disorder patients, impairments in facial emotion recognition have been associated with eating psychopathology severity. Little research however has been carried out on how bulimic spectrum disorder (BSD) patients spontaneously express emotions. Our aim was to investigate emotion expression in BSD patients and to explore the influence of personality traits. Our study comprised 28 BSD women and 15 healthy controls. Facial expressions were recorded while participants played a serious video game. Expressions of anger and joy were used as outcome measures. Overall, BSD participants displayed less facial expressiveness than controls. Among BSD women, expressions of joy were positively associated with reward dependence, novelty seeking and self-directedness, whereas expressions of anger were associated with lower self-directedness. Our findings suggest that specific personality traits are associated with altered emotion facial expression in patients with BSD. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

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Neuroticism and facial emotion recognition in healthy adults

Cited by 24 publications

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Neuroticism Delays Detection of Facial Expressions

Neuroticism Delays Detection of Facial Expressions

How social cognition deficits affect psychopathology: A neuroscientific approach

The Influence of Personality Traits on Emotion Expression in Bulimic Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot Study

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