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Siegwarth, Nicole; Larkin, Kevin T.; Kemmner, Christine – Psychological Record, 2012
Experimenter effects have long been hypothesized to influence participants' responses to mental stress testing. To explore the influence of experimenter warmth on responses to two mental stress tasks (mental arithmetic, mirror tracing), 32 young women participated in a single 45-min experimental session. Participants were randomized into warm…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Females, Emotional Response, Human Body
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Argott, Paul; Townsend, Dawn Buffington; Sturmey, Peter; Poulson, Claire L. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Previous studies have shown that most individuals with autism do not show empathic responding. The present study is an attempt to teach such skills. Script-fading procedures have been used to teach other social-interaction skills, so they are applied here to teach empathic responding. This study included three adolescents with autism, two males…
Descriptors: Scripts, Stimuli, Autism, Adolescents