Emotion and self in psychotic disorders: Behavioral evidence from an emotional evaluation task using verbal stimuli varying in emotional valence and self-reference

摘要

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.