Coming Face-to-Face with Depression: The Impact of Depression Severity on Emotion Perception

Emotion perception is a critical part of our social development. Although many may not realize it, emotions provide nonverbal signals to one's affective state, ultimately influencing our response and behavior in social settings. However, disorders such as Major Depression may have a detrimental impact on the ability to perceive and interpret facial expressions accurately. Thus, this study investigates how depression and anxiety severity affects one's threshold sensitivity to various emotional expressions.