Detecting implicit cues of aggressiveness in male faces in revictimized female PTSD patients and healthy controls
| Autor: | Sophie Rausch, Pia Bornefeld-Ettmann, Kathlen Priebe, Janine Thome, Cheryl M. McCormick, Shawn N. Geniole, Klara A. Lieberz, Thomas Fydrich, Regina Steil, Anke Weidmann, Meike Müller-Engelmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Attractiveness media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Dysfunctional family 050105 experimental psychology Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Young Adult Perception medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Crime Victims Biological Psychiatry media_common Facial expression Aggression 05 social sciences Multilevel model Middle Aged Facial Expression Psychiatry and Mental health Domestic violence Female Cues medicine.symptom Psychology Facial Recognition Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research. 267:429-437 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.05.061 |
| Popis: | Victimized women are thought to have impairments in identifying risk and to have dysfunctional reactions to threatening situations, which increase the risk for revictimization. To investigate possible deficits in revictimized women, we used a method examining women's perceptions of an implicit facial cue of aggressiveness – the facial Width-to-Height Ratio (fWHR). We tested whether revictimized women show impairments in detecting aggressiveness in male faces by neglecting cues of fWHR and choosing a smaller preferred distance to men. Fifty-two revictimized PTSD patients and 52 healthy controls provided ratings of aggressiveness and attractiveness for 65 photographed men and chose their preferred distance towards 11 pictured men. Multiple regression analyses indicated that revictimized women do not show impairments in perceiving and reacting to cues of aggression accurately. Hierarchical linear models, however, indicated that revictimized women rated all men as less aggressive. Revictimized women with histories of intimate partner violence (IPV) rated men with larger fWHRs and higher values of actual aggression to be more attractive than did revictimized women without IPV histories. A reduced appraisal of threat signals as threatening and an attraction to wider-faced and more aggressive men might increase the risk for revictimization. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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