01388nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002400118653002600142653002300168653002100191653001200212100003400224700003300258700004100291245006000332300001200392490000700404520071900411022001401130020001401144       2013                            d  c06/2013bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aEmotion Recognition10aemotional information10aFacial Expressions10aMajor Depression10asadness1 aEnrique G. Fernández-Abascal1 aMaría Dolores Martín Díaz1 aFrancisco Javier Domínguez-Sánchez00aPositive emotional information avoiding bias in sadness  a201-2090 v193 aThe purpose of this study is to analyze specific and general deficits in facial and vocal emotional expression recognition in people with low and high sadness. The aim is to verify whether common biases of major depressive disorder occur in nonclinical emotional conditions too. According to the results there are no general deficits in emotional recognition, but there is avoidance bias of positive emotional information. As for voice recognition bias, there also appears to be a more accurate recognition of the expression of sadness in the high sadness group. Both biases seem to be independent phenomena as they do not occur in the case of facial recognition and the correlation between both is nonsignificant.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437