TY - JOUR
T1 - Anhedonia and emotional responses to affect evoking stimuli
AU - Berenbaum, Howard
AU - Snowhite, Rebecca
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grant MH31536 from the National Institute of Mental Health and by funds from the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program. Our interest in this problem was stimulated by conversations with Robert Levenson, who also provided important advice and encouragement. We are grateful to Carol Hennon, Christina Tinsley, and Elaina De Hart for serving as raters. We would also like to thank Milton Strauss and Douglas Heinrichs who facilitated development of the procedures and instruments employed in the present study.
PY - 1987/8
Y1 - 1987/8
N2 - The purpose of the present study was to determine whether individuals with unusually high scores on the Scale for Physical Anhedonia (Chapman et al. 1976) would differ from average scorers in their emotional responses to affect-evoking stimuli. Ten male and ten female anhedonics, as well as ten male and ten female control subjects, were each shown brief filmclips that were expected to elicit emotional responses. The subjects’ facial expressions were videotaped while they watched the filmclips, and they also completed adjective checklists describing how they felt while watching them. The anhedonics and nonanhedonics did not differ in their self-reports of emotional experience, nor did they differ in their facial expressions of emotion while viewing the filmclips. Compared to men, women reported experiencing more emotion, and their facial expressions also indicated greater responsiveness.
AB - The purpose of the present study was to determine whether individuals with unusually high scores on the Scale for Physical Anhedonia (Chapman et al. 1976) would differ from average scorers in their emotional responses to affect-evoking stimuli. Ten male and ten female anhedonics, as well as ten male and ten female control subjects, were each shown brief filmclips that were expected to elicit emotional responses. The subjects’ facial expressions were videotaped while they watched the filmclips, and they also completed adjective checklists describing how they felt while watching them. The anhedonics and nonanhedonics did not differ in their self-reports of emotional experience, nor did they differ in their facial expressions of emotion while viewing the filmclips. Compared to men, women reported experiencing more emotion, and their facial expressions also indicated greater responsiveness.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0033291700025915
DO - 10.1017/S0033291700025915
M3 - Article
C2 - 3628628
AN - SCOPUS:0023626368
VL - 17
SP - 677
EP - 684
JO - Psychological Medicine
JF - Psychological Medicine
SN - 0033-2917
IS - 3
ER -