@article{ref1,
title="Emotion and self in psychotic disorders: behavioral evidence from an emotional evaluation task using verbal stimuli varying in emotional valence and self-reference",
journal="Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry",
year="2017",
author="Herbert, Cornelia and Hesse, Klaus and Wildgruber, Dirk",
volume="58",
number="",
pages="86-96",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Psychotic disorders are accompanied by changes in emotional and self-referential processing. This behavioral study investigates the link between emotional and self-referential processing in 21 psychotic patients with and without symptoms of disordered self-processing and 21 healthy age-matched controls during emotional evaluation of words varying in emotional valence and self-reference. <br><br>METHODS: Emotional and neutral words related to the self of the reader (e.g., &quot;my fear&quot;, &quot;my happiness&quot;, &quot;my books&quot;), to the self of another person, unknown to the reader (e.g., &quot;his fear&quot;, &quot;his happiness&quot;, &quot;his books&quot;) or without person reference (e.g., &quot;the fear&quot;, &quot;the happiness&quot;, &quot;the books&quot;) had to be judged in reference to one's own feelings as positive, negative or neutral. <br><br>RESULTS: Compared to healthy controls (HC) psychotic patients with symptoms of self-disorders (PwSD) showed significantly reduced valence congruent judgments in response to self-related (particularly positive and negative) words and no difference between self-, other-, and personally unreferenced positive words. These differences between PwSD and HC were also reflected in post-experimental ratings of subjective experience. Additionally, no reaction time or memory advantage for self-related or emotional words could be found in psychotic patients irrespective of the presence of self-disorders. LIMITATIONS: The results may be preliminary due to the small sample sizes. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, the results argue in favor of a differentiated view regarding changes in emotional experience in psychotic disorders. They provide preliminary evidence that in psychotic disorders changes in emotion and self-processing may be related to the severity of self-disorders thought to underlie disordered thinking and feeling in psychotic patients.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0005-7916",
doi="10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.09.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.09.003"
}