Directed forgetting of emotional stimuli in borderline personality disorder.

Korfine, Lauren; Hooley, Jill M.

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.109.2.214

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“…An exclusively female sample was recruited to minimize heterogeneity in the data. Advertisements for the BPD group requested "moody" people with "stormy relationships" (see Korfine and Hooley, 2000;. Advertisements for the Trauma group requested participants who experienced "abuse" in their childhood.…”

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Enhanced sensitivity and response bias for male anger in women with borderline personality disorder

Veague

Hooley

2014

Psychiatry Research

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Interpersonal difficulties, which are a central feature of borderline personality disorder, may be related to problems with social cognition. We explored facial emotion recognition in 44 women (15 with BPD, 15 healthy controls, and 14 with a history of childhood trauma but no BPD) examining the role that BPD and abuse history played in the ability to detect fearful, angry and happy cues in emotional faces. In Task 1, participants viewed pictures of morphed faces containing different percentages of specific emotions and reported the emotion they saw. In Task 2, participants were asked to increase the intensity of a specific emotion on an initially neutral face until they could detect that emotion in the face. Recognition of fear was not associated with abuse history or BPD. Recognizing happiness was also unrelated to BPD, although a history of childhood abuse predicted problems recognizing happiness, particularly in female faces. Across both tasks, the more women reported symptoms of BPD, the earlier they detected anger expressed in male faces. BPD symptoms also predicted the misidentification of anger in male (but not female) faces that contained no anger cues. Findings suggest that participants with BPD have an emotional processing bias toward seeing anger in males and that this is independent of abuse history.

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Enhanced sensitivity and response bias for male anger in women with borderline personality disorder

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Hooley

2014

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“…Dolcos and colleagues showed that emotional arousal interferes with working memory for social stimuli and that the interference was associated with high amygdala activity (Dolcos & McCarthy, 2006). In BPD, interference between emotion and cognition has been demonstrated by several studies (Arntz, Appels, & Sieswerda, 2000;Domes et al, 2006;Korfine & Hooley, 2000;Sieswerda, Arntz, Mertens, & Vertommen, 2007). Arntz and co-workers, for example, found impaired performance in an emotional Stroop paradigm when arousing stimuli of negative valence were presented (Arntz et al, 2000;Sieswerda et al, 2007).…”

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Emotion Recognition in Borderline Personality Disorder—A Review of the Literature

Domes

Schulze

Herpertz

2009

Journal of Personality Disorders

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by distinct impairments in emotion regulation, resulting in affective instability especially in the social context. It has been suggested that impaired social cognitive functioning such as impaired facial emotion recognition contributes to the social disturbances in BPD. In accordance with this notion, a number of behavioral studies have revealed a pattern of alterations in facial emotion recognition associated with BPD: subtle impairments in basic emotion recognition, a negativity or anger bias, and a heightened sensitivity to the detection of negative emotions. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence for structural and functional changes in the neural networks underlying affective dysregulation and emotional hyperreactivity in BPD. Merging these lines of evidence, we propose that emotional hyperreactivity interferes with the cognitive processes of facial emotion recognition, thereby contributing to the specific pattern of altered emotion recognition in BPD. Suggestions for future research and clinical implications are discussed.Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by a pervasive pattern of emotional instability, unstable interpersonal relations, and impaired impulse control. The most prominent clinical symptoms are recurrent self-injury, impulsive aggression and chronic suicidal tendencies, severely affecting patients and their social environment

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“…The directed-forgetting task has been used as a method to assess whether traumatized patients engage in selective forgetting of trauma-related information (see Cloitre, Cancienne, Brodsky, Dulit, & Perry, 1996;Korfine & Hooley, 2000;McNally, Clancy, & Schacter, 2001;McNally, Metzger, Lasko, Clancy, & Pitman, 1998). If traumatized individuals are more skilled in avoiding the encoding and/or retrieval of threatening information, one would expect a more pronounced forgetting of negative or threatening words.…”

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Directed forgetting between, but not within, dissociative personality states.

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Ardon

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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To investigate amnesia between identities in dissociative identity disorder (DID), the authors assessed explicit and implicit memory performance on a directed-forgetting task in 12 DID patients who switched from one state to an "amnesic" state between presentation and memory testing. DID patients were instructed either to remember or to forget neutral and emotional words. Besides an overall decrease in explicit memory, patients demonstrated selective forgetting of to-be-forgotten, but not of to-beremembered words in the amnesic state. Patients did not exhibit any directed forgetting within the same state. Implicit memory was fully preserved across states. Independent of state, patients recalled more emotional than neutral information. These results may extend the conceptualization of memory processes in DID, suggesting an important role for retrieval inhibition.

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Directed forgetting of emotional stimuli in borderline personality disorder.

Cited by 128 publications

References 19 publications

Enhanced sensitivity and response bias for male anger in women with borderline personality disorder

Enhanced sensitivity and response bias for male anger in women with borderline personality disorder

Emotion Recognition in Borderline Personality Disorder—A Review of the Literature

Directed forgetting between, but not within, dissociative personality states.

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