| A negative emotional and economic judgment bias in major depression. | |
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PMID: 23377282 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Although major depression is projected to be among the top three causes of disability-adjusted life years lost in 2030, relatively little is known concerning the extent to which depressed mood states can bias social-economic decision making away from optimal outcomes. One experimental framework to study the interaction between negative emotion and social-economic decisions is the ultimatum game (UG), where the fair, cooperative player altruistically punishes the unfair, non-cooperative player. To assess a potential susceptibility of altruistic punishment to depressed mood, we repeatedly administered the UG task to a cohort of 20 currently depressed patients with a diagnosis of recurrent major depressive disorder and 20 healthy controls. Furthermore, valence and arousal ratings of emotionally laden pictures were obtained from all participants in order to assess a depressed mood-related distortion of emotion judgments. Compared to healthy controls, depressed patients over-sanctioned unfair proposals in the UG and judged emotional stimuli too negatively. Thus, major depression is associated with a negative emotional bias that hampers social-economic decision making and produces large personal costs. |
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Dirk Scheele; Yoan Mihov; Olga Schwederski; Wolfgang Maier; René Hurlemann |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-2-5 |
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Title: European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience Volume: - ISSN: 1433-8491 ISO Abbreviation: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-2-4 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9103030 Medline TA: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany. |
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