Facial Expression Recognition of Emotion Impairments in Men with Borderline Personality Disorder

Abstract

The overwhelming research has concluded that female patients with borderline personality disorder have a visual perception impairment associated with reading emotional facial expressions, so it is easy to conclude that men with the disorder would face similar impairments. It is, however, possible that the men with the disorder could face similar strenuous impairments when faced with neutral or ambiguous faces. Men with borderline personality disorder would encounter impairments with facial expression recognition, more than likely they would associate neutral or ambiguous faces with negative emotions. These impairments could be worse than female patients due to sex differences in anatomy and cultural context.