Recognition of posed and genuine facial expressions of emotion in paranoidand nonparanoid schizophrenia

Most previous research reporting emotion-recognition deficits in schizophre nia has used posed facial expressions of emotion and chronic-schizophrenia patients. In contrast, the present research examined the ability of patient s with acute paranoid and nonparanoid (disorganized) schizophrenia to recog nize genuine as well as posed facial expressions of emotion. Evidence of an emotion-recognition deficit in schizophrenia was replicated, but only when posed facial expressions were used. For genuine expressions of emotion, th e paranoid-schizophrenia group was more accurate than controls: nonparanoid -schizophrenia patients, and depressed patients. Future research clearly ne eds to consider the posed versus genuine nature of the emotional stimuli us ed and the type of schizophrenia patients examined.