Publications (1987-1999)
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1999
| Published Keywords: social anxiety, stimulus ambiguity, stroop task, threat | Interpretive biases for ambiguous stimuli in social anxiety Constans, J., Penn, D. L., Ihnen, G., & Hope, D. A. (1999). Interpretation biases in social anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, 643-651. doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00180-6 A growing body of literature suggests that individuals with high levels of general anxiety form threatening interpretations of ambiguous events. Although theoretical formulations of pathological social anxiety emphasize the importance of a negative interpretive-style in the etiology and maintenance...read more |
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| Published Keywords: psychiatric stigma, severe mental illness, group stereotypes | Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1999). Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. American Psychologist, 54, 765-776. doi:10.1037//0003-066x.54.9.765 Advocacy, government, and public-service groups rely on a variety of strategies to diminish the impact of stigma on persons with severe mental illness. These strategies include protest, education, and promoting contact between the general public and persons with these disorders. The authors argue that...read more |
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| Published Keywords: chronic schizophrenia, negative symptoms, executive functions | Insight in schizophrenia: Its relationship to measures of executive functions Mohamed, S., Fleming, S., Penn, D. L., & Spaulding, W. (1999). Insight in schizophrenia: Its relationship to measures of executive functions. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 525-531. doi:10.1097/00005053-199909000-00001 Lack of awareness of specific symptoms among persons with schizophrenia has not been adequately studied in the context of neuropsychological function. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether poor insight as measured by the Scale to Assess Unawareness of...read more |
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| Published Keywords: social skill impairments, social cognition, schizophrenia, self-monitoring | Social cognition and social skills in schizophrenia: The role of self-monitoring Penn, D. L., Corrigan, P. W., Martin, J., Ihnen, G., Racenstein, J. M., Nelson, D., Cassisi, J., & Hope, D. A. (1999). Social cognition and social skills in schizophrenia: The role of self-monitoring. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 188-190. doi:10.1097/00005053-199903000-00009 Conducted a preliminary investigation of self-monitoring (SM) in schizophrenics using 2 versions of the conversation probe role play test with differing impression management demands. It was hypothesized that Ss high in SM would demonstrate superior social skills than Ss low in SM, with the...read more |
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| Published Keywords: stigma, dangerousness, contact | Dispelling the stigma of schizophrenia: II. The impact of information on dangerousness Penn, D. L., Kommana, S., Mansfield, M., & Link, B. G. (1999). Dispelling the stigma of schizophrenia: II. The impact of information on dangerousness. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 25, 437-446. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a033391 This study addressed a relatively neglected topic in schizophrenia: identifying methods to reduce stigma directed toward individuals with this disorder. The study investigated whether presentation of information describing the association between violent behavior and schizophrenia could affect...read more |
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| Published Keywords: thought disorder, psychosocial functioning | Thought disorder and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia: The concurrent and predictive relationships *Racenstein, J. M., Penn, D. L., Harrow, M., & Schleser, R. (1999). Thought disorder and instrumental functioning in schizophrenia: The concurrent and longitudinal relationships. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 281-289. doi:10.1097/00005053-199905000-00003 Recent findings have linked impairments in social performance among individuals with schizophrenia to deficits in cognition. However, one component of cognition, thought disorder (TD), has received little attention in its association with social functioning. The current investigation examined...read more |
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1998
| Published Keywords: social impact, social anxiety, information recall | Social anxiety, recall of interpersonal information, and social impact on others Hope, D. A., Sigler, K. D., Penn, D. L., & Meier, V. (1998). Social anxiety, recall of interpersonal information, and social impact on others. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 12, 303-322. This study sought to replicate and extend a previous study in which social anxiety was associated with poorer recall of the details of a social interaction as well as to test various hypotheses derived from Trower and Gilbert's (1989) psychobiological/ethological theory of social anxiety. Socially...read more |
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| Published Keywords: schizophrenia, affect perception, social functioning | Social perception and social skills in schizophrenia *Ihnen, G., Penn, D. L., Corrigan, P. W., & Martin, J. (1998). Social perception and social skills in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 80, 275-286. doi:10.1016/s0165-1781(98)00079-1 The relationship of social perception to social skill in schizophrenia was investigated. Twenty-six outpatients completed three social perception tasks (i.e. facial affect recognition, social cue recognition, and self-ratings of social skill) and participated in two role-plays. Correlational...read more |
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| Published Keywords: stigma, severe mental illness | Changing societal attitudes toward persons with severe mental illness *Mayville, E., & Penn, D. L.. (1998). Changing societal attitudes toward persons with severe mental illness. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 5, 241-253. doi:10.1016/S1077-7229(98)80009-6 Persons with severe mental illness are often stigmatized as a result of their psychiatric condition, which likely contributes to their difficulties in interpersonal relations, occupational functioning, and self-esteem. Given the pervasive effects of stigma on the adjustment of persons with severe...read more |
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| Published Keywords: stigma, severe mental illness, negative perceptions | The stigma of severe mental illness: Some potential solutions to a recalcitrant problem Penn, D. L., & Martin, J. (1998). The stigma of severe mental illness: Some potential solutions to a recalcitrant problem. Psychiatric Quarterly, 69, 235-247. doi:10.1023/a:1022153327316 Despite recent advances in the treatment of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), their full integration into society is hindered by lingering negative attitudes towards them. In this paper, a brief overview is provided on stigmatization towards...read more |
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| Published Keywords: social impairments, severe psychiatric disorders, peer ratings | Use of peer ratings to assess sociability among inpatients with severe psychiatric disorders Penn, D. L., Reed, D., Sullivan, M., & Spaulding, W. (1998). Assessment of sociability in severe psychiatric disorders: The use of peer ratings. Psychiatric Services, 49, 1440-1444. doi:10.1176/ps.49.11.1440 Objective: A critical component of inpatient treatment for persons with severe psychiatric disorders is an evaluation of their social impairments. Most existing methods for such evaluations involve staff input and can be both time-consuming and expensive. This...read more |
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1997
| Published Keywords: SMI, disease, discrimination, assumptions | Disease and discrimination: Two paradigms that describe severe mental illness Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L.. (1997). Disease and discrimination: Two paradigms that describe severe mental illness. Journal of Mental Health, 6, 355-366. doi:10.1080/09638239718680 Disease and discrimination are two different paradigms that describe severe psychiatric disorders. Divergent views about mental illness have practical implications; people with severe mental illness may be exposed to conflicting paradigms and thus confused about appropriate intervention...read more |
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| Published Keywords: stigma, schizophrenia, public perception | Dispelling the stigma of schizophrenia *Kommana, S., Mansfield, M., & Penn, D. L.. (1997). Dispelling the stigma of schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services, 48, 1393-1395. doi:10.1176/ps.48.11.1393 Public perception of persons with severe mental illness is not favorable, and the public often views these persons as unpredictable and dangerous (1,2). The widespread rejection of persons with severe mental illness adds to the burden they bear as a result of being labeled mentally ill (3,4). Such negative perceptions...read more |
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| Published Keywords: affect recognition, schizophrenia, patient chronicity, medication status | Affect recognition in schizophrenia: A synthesis across three studies Mueser, K. T., Penn, D. L., Blanchard, J. J., & Bellack, A. S. (1997). Affect recognition in schizophrenia: A synthesis across three studies. Psychiatry, 60, 301-308. doi:10.1080/00332747.1997.11024808 The results of three studies of affect recognition in schizophrenia, all using the same measures (the Face Emotion Identification Test, the Face Emotion Discrimination Test, and the Test of Facial Recognition), are reviewed. The studies differed on two important subject characteristics: patient...read more |
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| Published Keywords: social functioning, schizophrenia, information processing, social perception | Factors underlying social functioning in schizophrenia: Information processing and social perception (Introduction to special series) Penn, D. L., & Corrigan, P. W. (1997). Factors underlying social functioning in schizophrenia: Information processing and social perception (Introduction to special series). Psychiatry, 60, 291. doi:10.1080/00332747.1997.11024805 |
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| Published Keywords: social cognition, schizophrenia, nonsocial cognition, social functioning | Social cognition in schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Corrigan, P. W., Bentall, R., Racenstein, J. M., & Newman, L. (1997). Social cognition in schizophrenia. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 114-132. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.121.1.114 The study of social cognition in schizophrenia may augment the understanding of clinical and behavioral manifestations of the disorder. In this article, the authors describe social cognition and differentiate it from nonsocial cognition. They garner evidence to support the role of...read more |
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| Published Keywords: physical attractiveness, social skill, chronic schizophrenia | Physical attractiveness in schizophrenia: The mediating role of social skill Penn, D. L., Mueser, K. T., & Doonan, R. (1997). Physical attractiveness in schizophrenia: The mediating role of social skill. Behavior Modification, 21, 78-85. doi:10.1177/01454455970211004 The role of social skill in mediating perceived physical attractiveness among individuals with chronic schizophrenia was investigated. Twenty five inpatients participated in an unstructured role play. The physical attractiveness of the individuals was rated both before and after...read more |
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| Published Keywords: information processing, social functioning, cognitive deficits, schizophrenia | Cognition and social functioning in schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Spaulding, W., Reed, D., Sullivan, M., Mueser, K. T., & Hope, D. A. (1997). Cognition and social functioning in schizophrenia. Psychiatry, 60, 281-291. doi:10.1080/00332747.1997.11024806 This article reviews three studies investigating the relationship between information processing and social functioning in schizophrenia. The most consistent finding is the association between vigilance performance on a hybrid continuous performance/span of apprehension...read more |
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1996
| Published Keywords: emotion recognition, social competence, schizophrenia | Emotion perception and social competence in chronic schizophrenia. Mueser, K. T., Doonan, R. Penn, D. L., Blanchard, J. J., Bellack, A. S., Nishith, P., & DeLeon, J. (1996). Emotion perception and social competence in chronic schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 271-275. doi:10.1037//0021-843x.105.2.271 This study evaluated (a) whether chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients show deficits in emotion recognition compared to non-patients, and (b) whether deficits in emotion recognition are related to poorer social competence. Two emotion recognition tests...read more |
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| Published Keywords: psychosocial treatment, schizophrenia, family intervention models, social skills training | Research update on the psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia Penn, D. L., & Mueser, K. T. (1996). Research update on the psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153, 607-617. doi:10.1176/ajp.153.5.607 Objective: This review is an update on the research evidence supporting psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia. It extends previous review articles by summarizing the literature on social skills training, family interventions, cognitive rehabilitation, and coping with residual postive symptoms. Method: The author reviewed controlled treatment outcome studies of...read more |
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| Published Keywords: attention, cognition, speech, social competence, sex differences | Information processing, social skill, and gender in schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Mueser, K. T., & Spaulding, W. (1996). Information processing, social skill, and gender in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 59, 213-220. doi:10.1016/0165-1781(95)02768-8 The relationships among information processing, social skill, and gender in individuals with chronic schizophrenia were investigated. Although there were no gender differences in information processing, social skill, or negative symptoms, performance on information-processing tasks was related to various indices of...read more |
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| Published Keywords: schizophrenia, social cognition, ward behavior, information processing | The relationship of social cognition to ward behavior in chronic schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Spaulding, W., Reed, D., & Sullivan, M. (1996). The relationship of social cognition to ward behavior in chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 20, 327-335. doi:10.1016/0920-9964(96)00010-2 The relationship between social cognition (i.e., cognition for social stimuli) and ward behavior among individuals with chronic schizophrenia was investigated. Twenty-seven inpatients completed a battery of cognitive and social-cognitive tasks and were rated by staff on various indices...read more |
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1995
| Published Keywords: antipsychotic medication, psychosocial skill learning, cognitive functioning, schizophrenia | The effects of antipsychotic and antiparkinsonian medication on psychosocial skill learning. Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1995). The effects of antipsychotic and antiparkinsonian medication on psychosocial skill learning. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2, 251-262. Describes the interaction of antipsychotic medication and psychosocial skill learning in terms of mediating cognitive variables, by examining studies on (1) the relationship between information processing deficits of schizophrenia and psychosocial skill learning, and (2) medication effects on cognitive functioning...read more |
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| Published | Cognitive-behavioral treatment of schizophrenia Penn, D. L., & Meuser, K. T. (1995). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of schizophrenia. Psicología conductual, 3, 5-33. |
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| Published Keywords: social skills, ward behavior, schizophrenia | Relations between social skills and ward behavior in chronic schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Mueser, K. T., Doonan, R., & Nishith, P. (1995). Relations between social skills and ward behavior in chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 16, 225-232. doi:10.1016/0920-9964(94)00084-l The relationship between social skills and ward behavior among chronic schizophrenia patients was investigated. Twenty-eight inpatients participated in an unstructured role play test and were rated by staff members on a number of indices of ward behavior...read more |
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| Published Keywords: inpatients, schizophrenia, reaction time, social skills | Information processing and social competence in chronic schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Mueser, K. T., Spaulding, W., Hope, D. A., & Reed, D. (1995). Information processing and social competence in chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 21, 269-281. doi:10.1093/schbul/21.2.269 The relationship between social competence and information processing among individuals with chronic schizophrenia was investigated. Thirty-eight inpatients participated in a role play test of social competence and completed a battery of information-processing tasks...read more |
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1994
| Published Keywords: judgement, social stigma, schizophrenia, living arrangements | Dispelling the Stigma of Schizophrenia: What Sort of Information Is Best? Penn, D. L., Guynan, K., Daily, T., Spaulding, W., Garbin, C., & Sullivan, M. (1994). Dispelling the Stigma of Schizophrenia: What Sort of Information Is Best? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 20, 567-578. doi:10.1093/schbul/20.3.567 This study investigated what type of information reduces stigmatization of schizophrenia. Subjects were presented with one of six varying descriptions of a hypothetical case in which a target individual had recovered from a mental disorder...read more |
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| Published Keywords: social anxiety, positive symptoms, negative symptoms, schizophrenia | Social Anxiety in Schizophrenia Penn, D. L., Hope, D. A., Spaulding, W., & Kucera, J. (1994). Social Anxiety in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 11, 277-284. doi:10.1016/0920-9964(94)90022-1 The relationship between social anxiety and positive and negative symptomatology in schizophrenia was investigated. Thirty eight impatients with schizophrenia completed a battery of...read more |
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1993
| Published Keywords: social cognitive problem solving, schizophrenia, depression, processing | Information Processing and Social Cognitive Problem Solving in Schizophrenia: Assessment of Interrelationships and Changes Over Time Penn, D. L., van der Does, A. J. W., Spaulding, W., Garbin, C., Linszen, D., & Dingemans, P. (1993). Information Processing and Social Cognitive Problem Solving in Schizophrenia: Assessment of Interrelationships and Changes Over Time. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 181, 13-20. doi:10.1097/00005053-199301000-00003 The relationship between basic information processing and social cognitive problem solving (SCPS) was studied in 31 schizophrenic, 16 depressive, and 31 control subjects...read more |
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| Published Keywords: social cognitive problem solving, processing, instructional context | Problem Solving from Different Perspectives: An Investigation of Instructional Context on Social Problem-Solving Ability Penn, D. L., Spaulding, W., & Hope, D. A. (1993). Problem Solving from Different Perspectives: An Investigation of Instructional Context on Social Problem-Solving Ability. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 7, 49-61. The Means-Ends Problem Solving task (MEPS) was used to assess the effect of instructional set on means-ends thinking. Half of the vignettes were presented from the perspective of a hypothetical individual and half from the subjects' own personal perspective...read more |
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1992
| Published Keywords: training, rehabilitation, cognitive impairments | Assessment and treatment of cognitive impairments. Reed, D., Sullivan, M., Penn, D. L., Stuve, P., & Spaulding, W. (1992). Assessment and treatment of cognitive impairments. New Directions for Mental Health Services: Effective Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 53, 7-20. doi:10.1002/yd.23319925303 Impairments in cognitive functioning, which obstruct psychiatric rehabilitation, are resistant to drugs and conventional psychosocial treatment but can be reduced by specialized training techniques...read more |
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1991
| Published Keywords: socialization, rehabilitation, schizophrenia | Cognitive rehabilitation of social deficits in schizophrenia: A direction of promise or following a primrose path? Penn, D. L. (1991). Cognitive rehabilitation of social deficits in schizophrenia: A direction of promise or following a primrose path? Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 15, 27-41. In this paper, a critical evaluation is conducted with regards to how well the cognitive rehabilitation approach addresses the individual with schizophrenia’s social and emotional impairments...read more |
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1987
| Published Keywords: contrast sensitivity functions, optometry | Normative contrast sensitivity functions: The problem of comparison. Long, G. M., & Penn, D. L. (1987). Normative contrast sensitivity functions: The problem of comparison. American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics, 64, 131-135. Sixty college age observers who were prescreened for 6/6 (20/20) acuity were examined twice on an automated contrast sensitivity system...read more |
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