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Paola Surcinelli1, Maurizio Codispoti, Ornella Montebarocci, Nicolino Rossi, Bruno Baldaro.
Abstract
The study investigated the relationship between recognition of emotional facial expressions and trait anxiety. A nonclinical sample of 19 participants with high-trait anxiety was selected, using the trait version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and compared with a sample of 20 participants with low-trait anxiety on a facial expression recognition task. Visual stimuli were 42 faces, representing seven emotional expressions: anger, sadness, happiness, fear, surprise, disgust and neutral. Participants had to identify the emotion portrayed by each face. Results showed that participants with high-trait anxiety recognized fear faces significantly better while the two groups did not differ in recognition of other facial expressions.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16325118 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2004.11.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Anxiety Disord ISSN: 0887-6185