AUTHOR=Ruiz-Tagle Amparo , Costanzo Elsa , De Achával Delfina , Guinjoan Salvador 

TITLE=Social Cognition in a Clinical Sample of Personality Disorder Patients

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00075

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00075

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=<p>Social cognition was assessed in a clinical sample of personality disorder (PD) stable patients receiving ambulatory treatment (<italic>N</italic> = 17) and healthy matched controls (<italic>N</italic> = 17) using tests of recognition of emotions in faces and eyes, in a test of social faux pas and in theory of mind (ToM) stories. Results indicated that when compared with healthy controls, individuals with PD showed a clear tendency to obtain lower scoring in tasks assessing recognition of emotion in faces (<italic>T</italic> = −2.602, <italic>p</italic> = 0.014), eyes (<italic>T</italic> = −3.593, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001), ToM stories (<italic>T</italic> = −4.706, <italic>p</italic> = 0.000), and Faux pas (<italic>T</italic> = −2.227, <italic>p</italic> = 0.035). In the present pilot study, PD individuals with a normal cognitive efficiency showed an impaired performance at social cognition assessment including emotion recognition and ToM.</p>