The Comparison of Facial Expressions Ability between Schizophrenic Patients, Siblings and Healthy People

Schizophrenic patients have so many problems in the cognition especially in the social cognition .Recent research compares the relationship between the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the ability in the recognition of negative facial expressions. In this casual-comparative research, 15 paranoid schizophrenic patients, 15 non-paranoid schizophrenic patients, 30 peers of schizophrenic and 30 healthy people were selected while available. .This test is a soft ware which displays 14 pictures for less than 1 second. The results of research were analyzed by SPSS 16 software through multi variation of analysis (MANOVA). Non-paranoid schizophrenic patients have less ability in identifying facial expressions than peers (p