Authors
Federica Scarpina, Giorgia Varallo, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Paolo Capodaglio, Enrico Molinari, Alessandro Mauro
Publication date
2021/5
Journal
Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
Volume
26
Pages
1243-1251
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Description
Background
Previous evidence about facial emotion recognition capability in obesity is few and not conclusive.
Objective
We investigated the capability of female individuals affected by obesity to recognize the emotions of fear and anger through a facial emotion recognition task grounded on the implicit redundant target effect.
Methods
20 women affected by obesity and 20 healthy-weight women were enrolled. We administered an implicit facial emotion recognition task. Both reaction time and level of accuracy were computed. Moreover, the level of alexithymia was measured through the standard questionnaire.
Results
Selective difficulties in recognizing the emotion of fear were observed in participants with obesity, when their performance was contrasted with healthy-weight controls …
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