Although emotional deficits in schizotypy have been reported, the exact nature of these deficits is not well understood. The goal of the current research was to further differentiate possible emotion deficits in schizotypy. In the current study, individuals with elevated social anhedonia (SocAnh; n=54) and elevated perceptual aberration/magical ideation (PerMag; n=27) were compared to control participants (n=304) on measures of attention to either positive or negative affect, level of anticipatory versus consummatory pleasure, and on the influence of negative mood on judgment of future risk. SocAnh was associated with decreased attention to positive emotions. At the same time, SocAnh was associated with both decreased anticipatory and decreased consummatory pleasure. In addition, in contrast to the other groups, there was no association in the SocAnh group between current negative mood and performance on a judgment task. In contrast to SocAnh, PerMag was associated with increased attention to negative emotions. Overall, these results suggest that SocAnh is associated with decreased attention to and experience of positive emotions and that PerMag is associated with increased attention to negative emotions.
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- The study investigates how social anhedonia (SocAnh) affects people's expectations and experiences of emotions during social interactions.
- Participants forecasted their positive and negative emotions before and after a sharing task with peers.
- Results indicated that while both SocAnh individuals and controls predicted similar levels of positive emotions, SocAnh individuals anticipated and experienced more negative emotions, suggesting that negative affect may contribute to their decreased motivation for social engagement.
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