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COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 406-413Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.10.3.406
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- Wellcome Trust
- Medical Research Council (U.K.)
- Fondation Fyssen
- MRC
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Disruption of normal emotional experience is central to the phenomenology of depression. Twenty-three depressed outpatients and 23 control subjects performed a computerized decision-making task, during which affective ratings were assessed online to identify various dimensions of emotional experience. We sought to contrast regret (the comparison of the outcomes of selected and nonselected options) with the general negative appraisal of task events. The experience of regret was reduced in depressed patients, an effect that was particularly related to self-reported apathy scores. In an exploratory analysis, we observed that females had a general downward shift in their ratings, as compared with males, but disappointment and regret effects were of similar magnitude. The possible contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex to the phenomenology of regret is discussed. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from http://cabn.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
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