AUTHOR=Ruiz-Tagle Amparo , Costanzo Elsa , De Achával Delfina , Guinjoan Salvador TITLE=Social Cognition in a Clinical Sample of Personality Disorder Patients JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry VOLUME=6 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00075 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00075 ISSN=1664-0640 ABSTRACT=

Social cognition was assessed in a clinical sample of personality disorder (PD) stable patients receiving ambulatory treatment (N = 17) and healthy matched controls (N = 17) using tests of recognition of emotions in faces and eyes, in a test of social faux pas and in theory of mind (ToM) stories. Results indicated that when compared with healthy controls, individuals with PD showed a clear tendency to obtain lower scoring in tasks assessing recognition of emotion in faces (T = −2.602, p = 0.014), eyes (T = −3.593, p = 0.001), ToM stories (T = −4.706, p = 0.000), and Faux pas (T = −2.227, p = 0.035). In the present pilot study, PD individuals with a normal cognitive efficiency showed an impaired performance at social cognition assessment including emotion recognition and ToM.