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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

Schizotypy is associated with difficulties detecting emotional facial expressions.

Shota Uono, Wataru Sato, Reiko Sawada, Sayaka Kawakami, Sayaka Yoshimura, Motomi Toichi

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Facial Emotion Recognition and its Associations With Psychological Well-Being Across Four Schizotypal Dimensions: a Cross-Sectional Study.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025
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Shota UonoDepartment of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, Habilitation, and Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0547-0522
Wataru SatoKokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Reiko SawadaFaculty of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Sayaka KawakamiFaculty of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Sayaka YoshimuraDepartment of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, Habilitation, and Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Motomi ToichiFaculty of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People with schizophrenia or subclinical schizotypal traits exhibit impaired recognition of facial expressions. However, it remains unclear whether the detection of emotional facial expressions is impaired in people with schizophrenia or high levels of schizotypy. The present study examined whether the detection of emotional facial expressions would be associated with schizotypy in a non-clinical population after controlling for the effects of IQ, age, and sex. Participants were asked to respond to whether all faces were the same as quickly and as accurately as possible following the presentation of angry or happy faces or their anti-expressions among crowds of neutral faces. Anti-expressions contain a degree of visual change that is equivalent to that of normal emotional facial expressions relative to neutral facial expressions and are recognized as neutral expressions. Normal expressions of anger and happiness were detected more rapidly and accurately than their anti-expressions. Additionally, the degree of overall schizotypy was negatively correlated with the effectiveness of detecting normal expressions versus anti-expressions. An emotion-recognition task revealed that the degree of positive schizotypy was negatively correlated with the accuracy of facial expression recognition. These results suggest that people with high levels of schizotypy experienced difficulties detecting and recognizing emotional facial expressions.

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emotion detectionemotion recognitionfacial expressionschizophreniaschizotypyvisual search

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