Abstract：
BACKGROUND: Misattribution of motivational salience to non-salient (neutral) stimuli could be viewed as a hallmark of psychosis in schizophrenia. Studies have recently revealed increased subjective experience of emotional arousal (EA) to neutral social stimuli in paranoid schizophrenia psychosis, suggesting a misattribution of emotional salience to them. We examined this phenomenon directly by quantifying the level of EA subjectively attributed to low-arousal, neutral-valenced faces.
METHODS: A task for EA attribution to neutral (in the context of affective) facial expressions was applied to 44 actively psychotic paranoid schizophrenia inpatients and 44 well-matched healthy controls.
RESULTS: Psychotic patients, compared with healthy controls, rated the neutral faces as more aroused (t (86) = 3.15, p =.001) thus misattributing emotional salience to them.
CONCLUSIONS: This finding supports the hypothesis that over-assignment of EA to neutral faces could be viewed as a subclinical affective mechanism of the clinically manifested experience of delusional perception.
CONCLUSIONS: The study provides the first direct empirical evidence for misattribution of emotional salience in terms of over-attribution of EA to neutral faces during acute paranoid schizophrenia psychosis.
METHODS: A task for EA attribution to neutral (in the context of affective) facial expressions was applied to 44 actively psychotic paranoid schizophrenia inpatients and 44 well-matched healthy controls.
RESULTS: Psychotic patients, compared with healthy controls, rated the neutral faces as more aroused (t (86) = 3.15, p =.001) thus misattributing emotional salience to them.
CONCLUSIONS: This finding supports the hypothesis that over-assignment of EA to neutral faces could be viewed as a subclinical affective mechanism of the clinically manifested experience of delusional perception.
CONCLUSIONS: The study provides the first direct empirical evidence for misattribution of emotional salience in terms of over-attribution of EA to neutral faces during acute paranoid schizophrenia psychosis.
摘要：
背景：动机显着性与非显着性（中性）刺激的错误归因可被视为精神分裂症中精神病的标志。最近的研究表明，在偏执型精神分裂症精神病中，情感唤醒（EA）对中性社会刺激的主观体验有所增加，暗示了他们对情感显著性的错误归因。我们通过量化主观归因于低觉醒的EA水平直接检查了这一现象，中性配价面。
方法：将EA归因为中性（在情感方面）面部表情的任务应用于44名积极精神病性偏执型精神分裂症住院患者和44名匹配良好的健康对照。
结果：精神病患者，与健康对照相比，将中性面孔评定为更被唤醒（t（86）=3.15，p=.001），因此错误地将情绪显着性归因于它们。
结论：这一发现支持了以下假设：将EA过度分配给中性面孔可被视为妄想知觉临床表现的亚临床情感机制。
结论：该研究提供了第一个直接的经验证据，证明在急性偏执型精神分裂症精神病期间，EA过度归因于中性面孔。
方法：将EA归因为中性（在情感方面）面部表情的任务应用于44名积极精神病性偏执型精神分裂症住院患者和44名匹配良好的健康对照。
结果：精神病患者，与健康对照相比，将中性面孔评定为更被唤醒（t（86）=3.15，p=.001），因此错误地将情绪显着性归因于它们。
结论：这一发现支持了以下假设：将EA过度分配给中性面孔可被视为妄想知觉临床表现的亚临床情感机制。
结论：该研究提供了第一个直接的经验证据，证明在急性偏执型精神分裂症精神病期间，EA过度归因于中性面孔。
