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The Physiological Response to Implicit and Explicit Fear Faces in Alexithymia.

The Physiological Response to Implicit and Explicit Fear Faces in Alexithymia.

Gilbert, Alison M.

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General Psychology

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ISBN10: 1243564229
ISBN13: 9781243564221
Publisher: Proquest Umi Dissertation Pub
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.42 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Alexithymia is a form of disordered emotional processing associated with psychiatric illness and poor treatment outcomes. Its hallmarks are difficulty identifying, representing and evaluating emotional material. Research on alexithymia includes investigations of behavioral, physiological and neural responsivity. Findings within and between these different methodologies are inconsistent and often not well motivated. We use the neuroimaging literature to motivate a design that links behavior and physiology in alexithymia. The aims of this study are to determine: (1) whether individuals with alexithymia exhibit behavioral responses to emotional faces that differ from controls and whether there are corresponding changes in physiology, (2) whether behavioral and physiological responses in alexithymia are differentially influenced by an implicit versus explicit manipulation of emotional task context, compared to controls. For Aim 1, we measure behavioral and physiological responses during two explicit facial categorization tasks: an emotion task requiring categorization of morphed emotional facial expressions, and an identity task requiring categorization of morphed facial identities. For Aim 2, we evaluate responses to emotional and neutral facial expressions in two task contexts: in an explicit task participants label the emotion of the face, while in an implicit task participants label the gender of the face. Using these experiments we determined whether undergraduates scoring high (TAS >= 61) or low (TAS

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