Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 825-833

  Lehmann, Anja ^a   Bahçesular, Katja ^a   Brockmann, Eva Maria ^a   Biederbick, Sarah Elisabeth ^a   Dziobek, Isabel ^b   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a   Montag, Christiane ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Emotion regulation; Emotional contagion; Multifaceted Empathy Test; Psychosocial function; Social cognition; Subjective Experience of Emotions Scale

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONAL CONTAGION SCALE; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL REACTIVITY INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIFACETED EMPATHY TEST; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF EMOTION SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARDS;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84919848276     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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