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Nonverbal social withdrawal in depression: Evidence from manual and automatic analyses

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Girard, Jeffrey M., Cohn, Jeffrey F., Mahoor, Mohammad H., Mavadati, S. Mohammad, Hammal, Zakia, Rosenwald, Dean P.·2014·Image and Vision Computing

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The relationship between nonverbal behavior and severity of depression was investigated by following depressed participants over the course of treatment and video recording a series of clinical interviews. Facial expressions and head pose were analyzed from video using manual and automatic systems. Both systems were highly consistent for FACS action units (AUs) and showed similar effects for change over time in depression severity. When symptom severity was high, participants made fewer affiliative facial expressions (AUs 12 and 15) and more non-affiliative facial expressions (AU 14). Participants also exhibited diminished head motion (i.e., amplitude and velocity) when symptom severity was high. These results are consistent with the Social Withdrawal hypothesis: that depressed individuals use nonverbal behavior to maintain or increase interpersonal distance. As individuals recover, they send more signals indicating a willingness to affiliate. The finding that automatic facial expression analysis was both consistent with manual coding and revealed the same pattern of findings suggests that automatic facial expression analysis may be ready to relieve the burden of manual coding in behavioral and clinical science.

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Authors
Girard, J. M., Cohn, J. F., Mahoor, M. H., Mavadati, S. M., Hammal, Z., & Rosenwald, D. P.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • University of Denver (US)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Corresponding author
Girard, Jeffrey M.
Venue
Image and Vision Computing
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-10
Volume
32
Issue
10
Pages
641-647
ISSN
0262-8856 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2096976598
Cited by
255
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 12
FWCI
16.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Image and Vision Computing (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Commons - DU (University of Denver) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (MH61435, MH65376, MH096951)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
depression, nonverbal behavior, social withdrawal, facial expressions, head orientation, facial action units, manual coding, affiliative behavior, head movement, interpersonal distance, treatment response, video analysis

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