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McKenzie, K.; Russell, A.; Golm, D.; Fairchild, G. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study investigated whether young adults with ASD (n = 29) had impairments in Cognitive Empathy (CE), Affective Empathy (AE) or Empathic Accuracy (EA; the ability to track changes in others' thoughts and feelings) compared to typically-developing individuals (n = 31) using the Empathic Accuracy Task (EAT), which involves watching narrators…
Descriptors: Empathy, Affective Behavior, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Dietrich, Susanne; Hertrich, Ingo; Riedel, Andreas; Ackermann, Hermann – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The Asperger syndrome (AS) includes impaired recognition of other people's mental states. Since language-based diagnostic procedures may be confounded by cognitive-linguistic compensation strategies, nonverbal test materials were created, including human affective and vegetative sounds. Depending on video context, each sound could be interpreted…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Motivation, Asperger Syndrome
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Mazzocco, Michele M. M.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
This study of 46 women with the fragile X gene and 56 controls found that performance on emotion perception and perspective-taking tasks was related to full-scale IQ scores but not to fragile X group status when effects of IQ were removed. Results represent a differentiation between fragile X and autism. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Autism, Congenital Impairments