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PubMed2007

Looking at other people: mechanisms for social perception revealed in subjects with focal amygdala damage.

How does the presence of socially relevant information in the environment influence our perception and judgment of other people? We have investigated how we direct our gaze to other people's faces, how we use specific features from faces to make social judgments about the presumed internal states of others, and how these mechanisms are disrupted following pathology. Studies of patients with damage to the amygdala have demonstrated a specific impairment in the ability to direct gaze towards, and to use information from, the eyes in others' faces. This basic impairment may explain the deficient recognition of basic emotions and deficient social judgment seen in such patients. Ongoing studies in our laboratory examine face-to-face social interactions with real people in an attempt to link the above impairments in the laboratory to the dysfunctional social cognition seen in everyday life.

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PubMed1985

Stigma perception: social comparison among mentally retarded persons.

Two studies were conducted in order to determine whether a group concept problem (i.e., relatively unfavorable opinions of other retarded persons; Gibbons, 1981): (a) includes retarded persons' perceptions of their peers' social desirability, such as dating appeal and physical attractiveness; (b) occurs among persons living in community settings; and (c) differs by sex. Results provided affirmative answers for all questions and indicated that the problem is most severe among community women. In addition, there was evidence of self-derogation among both community-based and institutionalized retarded persons in terms of social success (e.g., dating behavior). I suggested that this type of person perception may be interfering with retarded persons' social behavior and their adjustment to community-based and institutional environments.

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PubMed2005

Using Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) measures of self- and social perception to give interpersonal meaning to symptoms: anxiety as an exemplar.

Current symptom-based diagnosis, although important, lacks theoretical underpinning that might give meaning to psychiatric symptoms. The structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) fills this void, operationalizing interpersonal theory for investigation of relational aspects of psychopathology. To provide an example of how SASB may be utilized to this end, participants with (n = 40) and without (n = 40) uncontrollable worry and anxiety completed SASB Intrex Questionnaires to explore self-perceptions and perceptions of strangers in a social interaction task. Based on SASB principles and past research on familial factors in childhood anxiety, it was hypothesized that self- and other perceptions would discriminate participant groups along the lines of disrupted and normal attachment. To demonstrate the versatility of SASB, analyses incorporated indexes of varying specificity. Largely, results supported predictions, suggesting the sensitivity of SASB Intrex to assess social perceptions even in a first-meeting context, extending its known possible uses.

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