Depressed mood and emotional responding
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The current study examined emotional responding in a sample of 57 college students who varied in depression symptom scores. Participants viewed pleasant, unpleasant and neutral emotional-eliciting pictures. Response measures included autonomic activity, subjective report of emotion, eyeblink startle reflex, and postauricular reflex. Findings indicated that greater depression symptoms predicted blunted responding with the postauricular reflex and eyeblink startle reflex measures. However, greater depression symptoms were not associated with blunted or heightened responding as indexed by the autonomic reactivity and self-report measures. Taken together, these results suggest that depression may be associated with both appetitive and defensive responding deficits, which has important implications for emotional responding. The findings underscore the importance of using multiple measures when investigating emotional responding associated with depression.
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Depression is associated with reduced physiological reactivity to positive stimuli.
“Depression, associated with less intense emotions, has also consistently been associated with reduced physiological reactivity to positive stimuli (Bylsma et al., 2008; Sloan and Sandt, 2010)”
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- Authors
- Sloan, D. M., & Sandt, A. R.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Temple University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sloan, Denise M.
- ORCID
- Sloan, Denise M.
- Venue
- Biological Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 368-374
- ISSN
- 0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998786456
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- depression, emotional responses, blunted affect, defensive responding, autonomic reactivity, emotional pictures, university students
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Affect, Blinking, Depression, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation, Psychophysics, Self Concept, Young Adult
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