ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2017
THE POSITIVITY OFFSET THEORY OF ANHEDONIA IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.
Article in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03863691 (Influence of Partial Blockade of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission Using Amisulpride on Stress Responsivity, Motivated Behavior and Emotional Reactivity in Humans.), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Influence of Partial Blockade of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission Using Amisulpride on Stress Responsivity, Motivated Behavior and Emotional Reactivity in Humans.
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- Trait Anhedonia in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Comparative Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
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- Unraveling reward processing in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a multilevel examination of the positive valence system.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Diminished anticipatory-consummatory pleasure interplay in high schizotypal traits and subthreshold depression: potential risk for schizophrenia and depression.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Temporal Relationship Between Momentary Negative Affect Intensity and Momentary Attenuated Delusions in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Environmental deprivation is associated with reward processing impairments and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Sex differences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: insights from the DiAPAson study using a data-driven approach.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- From anxiety to depression: A longitudinal investigation into the role of anhedonia.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Digital phenotyping evidence for the reduced positivity offset as a mechanism underlying anhedonia among individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Deconstructing the nature of emotion regulation impairments at the identification, selection, and implementation stages in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Altered brain dynamics of facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a combined EEG/fMRI study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 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
- Positivity, daily time use, mood, and functioning in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Results from the diapason multicentric study.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Clinical high risk for psychosis syndrome is associated with reduced neural responding to unpleasant images.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Markov chain analysis indicates that positive and negative emotions have abnormal temporal interactions during daily life in schizophrenia.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Deconstructing emotion regulation in schizophrenia: the nature and consequences of abnormalities at the identification stage.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Expanding the positivity offset theory of anhedonia to the psychosis continuum.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Editorial: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Reward: Theoretical and Technical Perspectives and Their Implications for Psychopathology.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Psychological Dimensions Relevant to Motivation and Pleasure in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Prior studies have concluded that schizophrenia patients are not anhedonic because they do not report reduced experience of positive emotion to pleasant stimuli. The current study challenged this view by applying quantitative methods validated in the Evaluative Space Model of emotional experience to test the hypothesis that schizophrenia patients evidence a reduction in the normative "positivity offset" (i.e., the tendency to experience higher levels of positive than negative emotional output when stimulus input is absent or weak). Participants included 76 schizophrenia patients and 60 healthy controls who completed an emotional experience task that required reporting the level of positive emotion, negative emotion, and arousal to photographs. Results indicated that although schizophrenia patients evidenced intact
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