“…On this evidence, many studies prove that depressed patients show a labeling (recognition) bias toward negative emotions. More specifically, such investigations reported contradictory results, showing that MDDs can be either faster and/or more accurate (Mandal and Bhattacharya, 1985;Gilboa-Schechtman et al, 2002;Surguladze et al, 2004;Csukly et al, 2010;Milders et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2012) or slower and/or less accurate (Zuroff and Colussy, 1986;Cooley and Nowicki, 1989;Cerroni et al, 2007;Gollan et al, 2008;Csukly et al, 2009;Douglas and Porter, 2010;Anderson et al, 2011;Watters and Williams, 2011;Aldinger et al, 2013) than HC subjects in decoding fear, anger, and, in particular, sadness.…”