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Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions
Individuals with high levels of alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings and an externally oriented style of thinking, appear to require more time to accurately recognize intense emotional facial expressions (EFEs). However, in everyday life, EFE...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00929 |
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author | Starita, Francesca Borhani, Khatereh Bertini, Caterina Scarpazza, Cristina |
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description | Individuals with high levels of alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings and an externally oriented style of thinking, appear to require more time to accurately recognize intense emotional facial expressions (EFEs). However, in everyday life, EFEs are displayed at different levels of intensity and individuals with high alexithymia may also need more emotional intensity to identify EFEs. Nevertheless, the impact of alexithymia on the identification of EFEs, which vary in emotional intensity, has largely been neglected. To address this, two experiments were conducted in which participants with low (LA) and high (HA) levels of alexithymia were assessed in their ability to identify static (Experiment 1) and dynamic (Experiment 2) morphed faces ranging from neutral to intense EFEs. Results showed that HA needed more emotional intensity than LA to identify static fearful – but not happy or disgusted – faces. On the contrary, no evidence was found that alexithymia affected the identification of dynamic EFEs. These results extend current literature suggesting that alexithymia is related to the need for more perceptual information to identify static fearful EFEs. |
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spelling | pubmed-60044192018-06-25 Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions Starita, Francesca Borhani, Khatereh Bertini, Caterina Scarpazza, Cristina Front Psychol Psychology Individuals with high levels of alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings and an externally oriented style of thinking, appear to require more time to accurately recognize intense emotional facial expressions (EFEs). However, in everyday life, EFEs are displayed at different levels of intensity and individuals with high alexithymia may also need more emotional intensity to identify EFEs. Nevertheless, the impact of alexithymia on the identification of EFEs, which vary in emotional intensity, has largely been neglected. To address this, two experiments were conducted in which participants with low (LA) and high (HA) levels of alexithymia were assessed in their ability to identify static (Experiment 1) and dynamic (Experiment 2) morphed faces ranging from neutral to intense EFEs. Results showed that HA needed more emotional intensity than LA to identify static fearful – but not happy or disgusted – faces. On the contrary, no evidence was found that alexithymia affected the identification of dynamic EFEs. These results extend current literature suggesting that alexithymia is related to the need for more perceptual information to identify static fearful EFEs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6004419/ /pubmed/29942271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00929 Text en Copyright © 2018 Starita, Borhani, Bertini and Scarpazza. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Starita, Francesca Borhani, Khatereh Bertini, Caterina Scarpazza, Cristina Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title | Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title_full | Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title_fullStr | Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title_full_unstemmed | Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title_short | Alexithymia Is Related to the Need for More Emotional Intensity to Identify Static Fearful Facial Expressions |
title_sort | alexithymia is related to the need for more emotional intensity to identify static fearful facial expressions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00929 |
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