Facial emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder

Background Emotion dysregulation represents a core symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Deficits in emotion perception are thought to underlie this clinical feature, although studies examining emotion recognition abilities in BPD have yielded inconsistent findings. Method The results of 10 studies contrasting facial emotion recognition in patients with BPD ( n = 266) and non-psychiatric controls ( n = 255) were quantitatively...