Impaired facial emotion perception of briefly presented double masked stimuli in violent offenders with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

In conclusion, that there were no specific emotion biases in the SSD group compared to healthy controls, but particular individuals may have greater impairments in facial emotion perception, being influenced by intellectual ability, psychomotor speed and medication dosages, rather than specifically emotion word understanding. This implies that both state and trait factors influence emotion perception in the aggressive SSD group and may reveal one source of potential misunderstanding of social situations which may lead to boundary violations and aggression.
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research