Table 2.
Emotional Responses to Affect-Eliciting Stimuli
| Stimuli/ response |
Blunted schizophrenics |
Nonblunted schizophrenics |
Depressives | Normal subjects |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Positive drink | ||||||||
| Subjective experiencea | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
| Facial expressionb | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Positive film clips | ||||||||
| Subjective experiencec | 8.0 | 4.3 | 8.6 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 8.4 | 2.8 |
| Facial expressiond | 1.0 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 3.9 | 2.6 |
| Negative drink | ||||||||
| Subjective experiencec | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 5.0 | 2.1 |
| Facial expressiond | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 |
| Negative film clips | ||||||||
| Subjective experiencec | 9.2 | 3.6 | 7.5 | 5.0 | 8.6 | 4.3 | 9.1 | 3.6 |
| Facial expressiond | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
a
Scores could range from 1 to 7.
b
Scores could be either 0 or 1.
c
Scores could range from 2 to 14.
d
Scores could range from 0 to 8.