Evoked facial emotional expression and emotional experience in people with anorexia nervosa

Abstract

This experimental study supports self report studies showing people with AN attenuate emotional expression and avoid negative affect. Such behavior may affect social interaction and contribute to the maintenance of the disorder.

Blunted neural response to implicit negative facial affect in anorexia nervosa

“…This interpretation is supported by previous behavioural work showing that people with AN have a tendency to avoid positive emotions (Lampard, Byrne, McLean, & Fursland, 2011). Additionally, when presented with positive film clips people with AN display fewer reciprocal positive facial expressions, and report less positive subjective positive affect and more negative positive affect than HC participants (Cardi et al, 2015;Davies et al, 2011;Davies et al, 2016;Lang et al, 2016). Additionally, people with AN report greater social anhedonia and general difficulties deriving pleasure from social interactions .…”

The effect of self-focused attention and mood on appearance dissatisfaction after mirror-gazing: An experimental study

“…The clip lasts about 2 minutes. It was selected because in a previous study it provided the highest negative score on the Positive and Negative Affective Schedule (PANAS) after being viewed by 20 people without any mental disorder (Davies, Schmidt, Stahl, & Tchanturia, 2011).…”

Facial expression to emotional stimuli in non-psychotic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In anorexia nervosa (AN) n=6; bulimia nervosa (BN) n=1; AN/BN n=4 (Cardi et al, 2015(Cardi et al, , 2014Claes et al, 2012;Dapelo et al, 2015;Davies et al, 2013Davies et al, , 2011Lang et al, 2016;Rhind et al, 2014;Soussignan et al, 2011Soussignan et al, , 2010Tárrega et al, 2014).…”