[Relation between perception of emotions by schizophrenic patients and the concordance of information from verbal and nonverbal channels of communication].

An experimental psychological study of the characteristics of the perception of emotions was conducted in patients with different degrees of autism (n = 42) and healthy subjects (n = 49) in relation to (a) the orientation of those studied, (b) the degree of the coincidence of verbal and nonverbal information. It was discovered that schizophrenics, in contrast to normal subjects, were characterized by a stable weakening of their orientation on the emotional state of another person in case of the contradiction of verbal and nonverbal information; in cases of the coincidence of information the perception is correctable. The detected characteristics of the identification of emotions depend on the severity of the syndrome of schizophrenic autism.