Recognition of emotional facial expressions in Alexithymia
Resumen: Alexithymia is a personality trait which is associated with difficulties in identifying and verbalizing emotions. Previous studies have shown a significant association between alexithymia and a lack of ability to decode emotional facial expressions. Three groups of university students (N = 1645) were formed by splitting the sample based on Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) scores. All participants performed an emotional expression recognition task, using the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes'" method. The experimenter presented images of the eye-region of the faces of actors and actresses. As expected, results showed that alexithymics performed worse on ability to infer others' emotional states expressed by the eyes. These results suggest that alexithymia is associated with impaired emotion recognition, that is most apparent when processing capacity is restricted, high-alexithymic individuals could develop less detailed perceptual representations of facial expression which might impair the process of drawing conclusions about its emotional significance.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.21909/sp.2017.03.741
Año: 2017
Publicado en: STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA 59, 3 (2017), 206-216
ISSN: 0039-3320

Factor impacto JCR: 0.511 (2017)
Categ. JCR: PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 119 / 135 = 0.881 (2017) - Q4 - T3
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.22 - Psychology (miscellaneous) (Q3)

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