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NCT04899609

The Effects of Anger and Joy Expressions on Approach and Avoidance Behaviors in Healthy Volunteers

Status unknown Last updated 8 September 2021
What this trial tests

trial in Major Depressive Episode in 40 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline
1 June 2021
Primary endpoint
1 June 2022
30 December 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity Hospital, Montpellier
StatusStatus unknown
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment40
Start date1 June 2021
Primary completion1 June 2022
Estimated completion30 December 2022
Sites1 location across France

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University Hospital, Montpellier

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Major Depressive Episode. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Social interactions are part of our daily lives. Communicating with others is a recurring choice which is based on emotional cues, such as facial expression. Our action must be adapted to the emotional state of our interlocutor, otherwise the investigators will have poor quality interactions An emotional stimulus would cause a conditioned response (innate reaction). Thus, the presence of an angry person would automatically trigger flight behavior. More recently, however, it has been envisioned that this same avoidance behavior could be the result of a goal-directed behvior. In this case, the avoidance behavior would be the result of an evaluation of the consequences of the selected action. These goal-directed behaviors are guided by a mental representation of consequences The project aims to study behavioral choices (approach and avoidance) in response to negative and positive social cues (anger and joy) in 40 healthy volunteers using a computerized neuropsychological task, and to determine wheter these choices are the result of goal-directed behavior. The study also aims to assess the modulation of behavioral adaptation by the level of impulsivity, lonilness, empathy, and by the capcity to understand others' intenstions.

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