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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	78936
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR SL-II-587
Autore	WANTE, L.
Titolo	The impact of happy and angry faces on working memory in depressed adolescents. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 59-72.
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2018, 169.
Riassunto	Recent cognitive models suggest that the ability to control emotional information in working memory (WM) may be implicated in the etiology and maintenance of depression. However, few studies have examined the effects of processing relevant and irrelevant emotional stimuli on WM performance in depressed adolescents. In the current study, depressed adolescents (n = 27) and healthy adolescents (n = 49) completed two versions of an emotional n-back task: a low WM load (0-back) task and a high WM load (2-back) task. In the emotion-relevant condition participants were asked to attend to the emotional expression of an angry, happy, or neutral face, whereas in the emotion-irrelevant condition participants were asked to attend to the gender of the face. The results showed a WM improvement for happy faces in the emotion-relevant condition and a WM impairment for happy faces in the emotion-irrelevant condition for healthy adolescents but not for depressed adolescents. No biases toward angry faces were found. These results demonstrate that depressed adolescents do not show a preferential processing of angry faces but rather fail to show a positivity bias as seen in healthy adolescents. This supports the theoretical notion that a depressive disorder is characterized by a blunted reactivity toward positive information and may provide new insights into the underlying mechanisms of youth depression.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	DEPRESSIONE.
	ADOLESCENTI.
	PREGIUDIZI.
	MEMORIA.
	EMOZIONI.
	PSICOPATOLOGIA.
	PAESI BASSI.
Ambito	Psicologico
Autore Secondario	MUELLER, S. C.
	CROMHEEKE, S.
	BRAET, C.
Titolo correlato	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2018, 169.
Accesso online	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2018-05120-006&lang=it&site=ehost-live

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The impact of happy and angry faces on working memory in depressed adolescents.