Heart rates, blood pressures, self-reported emotional level and anxiety of 15 schizophrenic outpatients indicated subjects discriminated among emotional levels in actors shown on videotape but their anxiety ratings did not change after viewing, and arousal after viewing highly emotional content was lower than at baseline.
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