Perceptions of social dominance through facial emotion expressions in euthymic patients with bipolar I disorder

The ability to accurately perceive dominance in the social hierarchy is important for successful social interactions. However, little is known about dominance perception of emotional stimuli in bipolar disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of social dominance in patients with bipolar I disorder in response to six facial emotional expressions. Participants included 35 euthymic patients and 45 healthy controls. Bipolar patients showed a lower perception of social dominance based on anger, disgust, fear, and neutral facial emotional expressions compared to healthy controls.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sung Hwa Kim, Vin Ryu, Ra Yeon Ha, Su Jin Lee, Hyun-Sang Cho Source Type: research