that alcoholics overestimated the intensity of all emotional expressions, misinterpreted emotional expressions (except fear) at all levels of intensity, and were unaware of their misperceptions (Philippot et al 1999). Oscar-Berman et al (1990) also reported that, compared with nonalcoholic controls, alcoholics judged photographs of facial emotional expressions to be more intense. When listening to sentences, the alcoholics also had some difficulty judging emotional intonations and emotional semantic content.
