Biases in processing of mood-congruent facial expressions in depression.
Affect perception
Depression
MDD
Major depressive disorder
Mood disorders
Processing bias
Journal
Psychiatry research
ISSN: 1872-7123
Titre abrégé: Psychiatry Res
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7911385
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2019
05 2019
Historique:
received:
26
11
2018
revised:
26
02
2019
accepted:
28
02
2019
pubmed:
26
3
2019
medline:
28
12
2019
entrez:
26
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cognitive models of depression suggest that depressed individuals exhibit a tendency to attribute negative meaning to neutral stimuli, and enhanced processing of mood-congruent stimuli. However, evidence thus far has been inconsistent. In this study, we sought to identify both differential interpretation of neutral information as well as emotion processing biases associated with depression. Fifty adult participants completed standardized mood-related questionnaires, a novel immediate mood scale questionnaire (IMS-12), and a novel task, Emotion Matcher, in which they were required to indicate whether pairs of emotional faces show the same expression or not. We found that overall success rate and reaction time on the Emotion Matcher task did not differ as a function of severity of depression. However, more depressed participants had significantly worse performance when presented with sad-neutral face pairs, as well as increased reaction times to happy-happy pairs. In addition, accuracy of the sad-neutral pairs was found to be significantly associated with depression severity in a regression model. Our study provides partial support for the mood-congruent hypothesis, revealing only a potential bias in interpretation of sad and neutral expressions, but not a general deficit in processing of facial expressions. The potential of such bias in serving as a predictor for depression should be further examined in future studies.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30908978
pii: S0165-1781(18)32207-8
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.076
pmc: PMC6504610
mid: NIHMS1525279
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
143-148Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R43 MH111325
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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