Impact of depression on response to comedy: A dynamic facial coding analysis
Impact of depression on response to comedy: A dynamic facial coding analysis
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-843x.116.4.804
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Cohn, Jeffrey F.
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作者：
Reed, Lawrence Ian;Sayette, Michael A.;Cohn, Jeffrey F.
患有抑郁症的个体对积极刺激的面部反应减弱。近期的认知研究表明，抑郁症患者对情绪刺激的评估可能与非抑郁症患者不同。先前的研究没有表明抑郁症患者在遇到难以回避的积极刺激时是否会有不同反应。作者研究了有不同程度的重性抑郁症病史（MDD）和当前抑郁症状（N = 116）的个体对强烈积极刺激的动态反应。使用面部动作编码系统（埃克曼和弗里森，1978）来测量对一段喜剧视频片段与情感相关的反应。报告有当前抑郁症状的参与者比没有当前症状的参与者在观看视频片段后更有可能表现出与情感相关的表情变化。即使对比仅集中在有MDD病史的个体上，当前症状的这种影响也会显现出来。具体而言，有当前抑郁症状的人比没有当前症状的人更有可能用与负面情感相关的表情来控制他们最初的微笑。这些发现表明，情感科学和社会认知的融合可能会为理解抑郁症带来重要进展。
Individuals suffering from depression show diminished facial responses to positive stimuli. Recent cognitive research suggests that depressed individuals may appraise emotional stimuli differently than do nondepressed persons. Prior studies do not indicate whether depressed individuals respond differently when they encounter positive stimuli that are difficult to avoid. The authors investigated dynamic responses of individuals varying in both history of major depressive disorder (MDD) and current depressive symptomatology (N = 116) to robust positive stimuli. The Facial Action Coding System (Ekman & Friesen, 1978) was used to measure affect-related responses to a comedy clip. Participants reporting current depressive symptomatology were more likely to evince affect-related shifts in expression following the clip than were those without current symptomatology. This effect of current symptomatology emerged even when the contrast focused only on individuals with a history of MDD. Specifically, persons with current depressive symptomatology were more likely than those without current symptomatology to control their initial smiles with negative affect-related expressions. These findings suggest that integration of emotion science and social cognition may yield important advances for understanding depression.