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Oral Contraceptives Impair Complex Emotion Recognition in Healthy Women

  • Despite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), remarkably little is known about the effects of OCs on emotion, cognition, and behavior. However, coincidental findings suggest that OCs impair the ability to recognize others’ emotional expressions, which may have serious consequences in interpersonal contexts. To further investigate the effects of OCs on emotion recognition, we tested whether women who were using OCs (n = 42) would be less accurate in the recognition of complex emotional expressions than women who were not using OCs (n = 53). In addition, we explored whether these differences in emotion recognition would depend on women’s menstrual cycle phase. We found that women with OC use were indeed less accurate in the recognition of complex expressions than women without OC use, in particular during the processing of expressions that were difficult to recognize. These differences in emotion recognition did not depend on women’s menstrual cycle phase. Our findings, thus, suggest that OCs impair women’s emotionDespite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), remarkably little is known about the effects of OCs on emotion, cognition, and behavior. However, coincidental findings suggest that OCs impair the ability to recognize others’ emotional expressions, which may have serious consequences in interpersonal contexts. To further investigate the effects of OCs on emotion recognition, we tested whether women who were using OCs (n = 42) would be less accurate in the recognition of complex emotional expressions than women who were not using OCs (n = 53). In addition, we explored whether these differences in emotion recognition would depend on women’s menstrual cycle phase. We found that women with OC use were indeed less accurate in the recognition of complex expressions than women without OC use, in particular during the processing of expressions that were difficult to recognize. These differences in emotion recognition did not depend on women’s menstrual cycle phase. Our findings, thus, suggest that OCs impair women’s emotion recognition, which should be taken into account when informing women about the side-effects of OC use.show moreshow less

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Author details:Rike Pahnke, Anett Mau-MöllerORCiDGND, Martin JungeGND, Julia WendtORCiDGND, Mathias WeymarORCiDGND, Alfons O. HammORCiDGND, Alexander LischkeORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.01041
ISSN:1662-453X
Pubmed ID:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30804733
Title of parent work (English):Frontiers in neuroscience
Publisher:Frontiers Research Foundation
Place of publishing:Lausanne
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Date of first publication:2019/02/11
Publication year:2019
Release date:2021/04/08
Tag:emotion recognition; estrogen; menstrual cycle; oral contraceptives; progesterone; social cognition
Volume:12
Number of pages:9
Funding institution:German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [LI 2517/2-1, WE 5873/1-1, WE 4801/3-1]
Organizational units:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie
DDC classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Open Access / Gold Open-Access
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License (German):License LogoCC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
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