ANHEDONIA AND THE INTENTIONAL COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION

This study evaluated the accuracy and expressiveness of emotional comm unication by college students identified as anhedonic or control (ns = 24), based on their scores on the Physical Anhedonia Scale, using an emotional communication task and self-report indices of emotional expr essiveness and self-monitoring. As expected, the anhedonic group repor ted significantly less emotional expressiveness in real-life social si tuations. However, contrary to the hypotheses, they did not differ fro m controls on measures from a laboratory communication task or on self -monitoring.