Posts Tagged ‘social-cognitive-deficits’

Indi­vid­u­als suf­fer­ing from schiz­o­phre­nia show social cog­ni­tive deficits, that is dif­fi­cul­ties in per­ceiv­ing and under­stand­ing the social world. Research shows that schiz­o­phre­nia is accom­pa­nied by social cog­ni­tion prob­lems such as prob­lems iden­ti­fy­ing facial expres­sions, under­stand­ing and respond­ing to social cues (e.g., body lan­guage), under­stand­ing that oth­ers have dif­fer­ent men­tal states and thoughts than one­self (also…