Impaired Emotional Facial Expression Decoding in Alcoholism is Also Present for Emotional Prosody and Body PosturesAlcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on June 17, 2009
We observed for the first time a generalized emotional decoding impairment in alcoholism, as this impairment is present not only for faces but also for other visual (i.e. body postures) and auditory stimuli.
Moreover, we report that this alteration (1) is mainly indexed by an overestimation of anger and (2) cannot be explained by an ‘affect labelling’ impairment, as the semantic comprehension of written emotional scenarios is preserved. Fundamental and clinical implications are discussed.
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