Figure 5.
Accuracy of recognition of 7 valences of facial expressions by rrMDD-patients vs. controls for the facial expression recognition task. Figure shows the number of emotional expressions (7 valences) accurately recognized and misclassified as the indicated emotion for rrMDD-patients and controls. There was an increased recognition of sad faces (p=0.047), higher misclassification as angry (p=0.048) and disgusting (p=0.046), worse recognition of neutral faces (p=0.005) and less misclassifications as neutral (p=0.003) by rrMDD vs. controls. For neutral faces there was a significant (mis-)classification*group interaction (p=0.005). *p <0.05; ** p<0.01; rrMDD, remitted recurrent depressive disorder.