Posttraumatic stress symptom severity is associated with impaired processing of emotional faces in a large international sample

Autor: Lauren A. Rutter, Colton Lind, Jacqueline Howard, Prabhvir Lakhan, Laura Germine
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Traumatic Stress. 35:1263-1272
ISSN: 1573-6598
0894-9867
DOI: 10.1002/jts.22834
Popis: Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) are associated with biases in emotional face processing. Existing research has utilized a variety of methodological techniques to demonstrate hyperreactivity to threatening cues in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; i.e., fearful faces), but studies to date have shown conflicting findings, including both increased and decreased time fixating on fearful faces. Moreover, the impact of PTSS severity on emotional face processing in the general population is unknown, as the generalizability of prior work is limited. The current study aimed to examine the associations between PTSS and sensitivity to detecting differences in fearful, angry, and happy faces in a large international sample. Participants were 1,182 visitors (M
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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