TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Feeling blue or turquoise? Emotional differentiation in major depressive disorder
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Demiralp, Emre
A1  - Thompson, Renee J.
A1  - Mata, Jutta
A1  - Jaeggi, Susanne M.
A1  - Buschkuehl, Martin
A1  - Barrett, Lisa Feldman
A1  - Ellsworth, Phoebe C.
A1  - Demiralp, Metin
A1  - Hernandez-Garcia, Luis
A1  - Deldin, Patricia J.
A1  - Gotlib, Ian H.
A1  - Jonides, John
SP  - 1410
EP  - 1416
VL  - 23
IS  - 11
N2  - Some individuals have very specific and differentiated emotional experiences, such as anger, shame, excitement, and happiness, whereas others have more general affective experiences of pleasure or discomfort that are not as highly differentiated. Considering that individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) have cognitive deficits for negative information, we predicted that people with MDD would have less differentiated negative emotional experiences than would healthy people. To test this hypothesis, we assessed participants' emotional experiences using a 7-day experience-sampling protocol. Depression was assessed using structured clinical interviews and the Beck Depression Inventory-II. As predicted, individuals with MDD had less differentiated emotional experiences than did healthy participants, but only for negative emotions. These differences were above and beyond the effects of emotional intensity and variability.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797612444903
ID  - ref1
ER  -