Use of the Multimorph in facial emotion recognition. Example of borderline personality in adolescence

作者：Robin M^*; Berthoz S; Kedia G; Dugre Le Bigre C; Curt F; Speranza M; Sapinho D; Pham Scottez A; Corcos M

来源：Annales Medico-Psychologiques, 2011, 169(2): 120-123.

DOI：10.1016/j.amp.2010.12.002

• Adolescence
• Borderline personality disorder
• Facial emotion recognition
• Multimorph

An increasing interest in the study of facial emotion recognition in many psychiatric disorders has emerged over the past few years. The morphing technique allowed opening new perspectives in experimentation, by using dynamic expressions of emotions, such as in the Multimorph task. Based on a literature review, we present here the interest of the Multimorph task. It includes 36 trials where a neutral (0%) face expresses increasing degrees of emotional intensity, slowly changing to a full-blend (100%) emotion. Then, the example of borderline personality disorder in adolescence is developed to examine how the observed pattern of results could account for the reported clinical characteristics. Limitations and prospects of the Multimorph are further discussed.

• 出版日期2011-3