SynthesisSchizophrenia research2012
Looking at the other side of the coin: a meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophrenia.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Do People With Schizophrenia Enjoy Social Activities as Much as Everyone Else? A Meta-analysis of Consummatory Social Pleasure.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Trait Anhedonia in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Comparative Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis of Neuropsychological Effort Test Performance in Psychotic Disorders.Neuropsychology review · 2020Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in the schizophrenia-spectrum.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Pooled it
- Levels of distress tolerance in schizophrenia appear equivalent to those found in borderline personality disorder.Journal of clinical psychology · 2020Trial
- Oxytocin increases eye gaze in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2019Trial
- Discrepancies between ideal and actual affect predict negative symptoms in schizophrenia in daily life: An ecological momentary assessment study.Psychiatry research · 2026Article
- Anhedonia is associated with impaired memory for positive emotional stimuli in individuals with schizophrenia.Neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Global reward processing deficits predict negative symptoms transdiagnostically and transphasically in a severe mental illness-spectrum sample.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dampened motivation in schizophrenia: evidence from a novel effort-based decision-making task in social scenarios.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Social anhedonia in the daily lives of people with schizophrenia: Examination of anticipated and consummatory pleasure.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Resource-rational psychopathology.Behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Anhedonia reflects an encoding deficit for pleasant stimuli in schizophrenia: Evidence from the emotion-induced memory trade-off eye-tracking paradigm.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Blunted brain responses to neutral faces in healthy first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia: an image-based fMRI meta-analysis.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Social cognition and apathy between two cognitive subtypes of schizophrenia: Are there the same or different profiles?Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2023Article
- Markov chain analysis indicates that positive and negative emotions have abnormal temporal interactions during daily life in schizophrenia.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Neural Circuitry of Salience and Reward Processing in Psychosis.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Review
- Social affective forecasting and social anhedonia in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a daily diary study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Intact differentiation of responses to socially-relevant emotional stimuli across psychotic disorders: An event-related potential (ERP) study.Schizophrenia research · 2022Article
- Psychological Dimensions Relevant to Motivation and Pleasure in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Abnormalities in emotional experience have long been viewed as core features of schizophrenia. Numerous studies indicate that people with schizophrenia report less pleasure than controls when reporting non-current feelings using trait, hypothetical, prospective, and retrospective emotional self-report formats; however, current research has demonstrated that schizophrenia patients and controls do not differ in their subjective reactions to emotional stimuli in most laboratory studies. Although substantial attention has been paid to studies examining self-reported valence in schizophrenia, subjective reports of arousal in response to affective stimuli have been neglected. Understanding the role of arousal in schizophrenia is imperative given that valence and arousal are differentially associated with physiological and behavioral responses. To understand the role of self-reported arousal, a meta-analysis of 26 published studies employing laboratory emotion induction paradigms in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls was conducted. Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and PubMed electronic databases and reference lists from identified articles were used as data sources. Using a random effects model, analyses demonstrated that controls and people with schizophrenia reported similar levels of subjective arousal in response to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli; however, people with schizophrenia reported experiencing greater arousal than controls in response to neutral stimuli. Furthermore, moderator analyses suggested that gender and methodological factors, such as rating scale and stimulus type, may affect these patterns of results and play a key role in determining whether patients and controls differ in self-reported arousal.
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