ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
Similarity hypothesis: understanding of others with autism spectrum disorders by individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
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- Perceptions of self and other: Social judgments and gaze patterns to videos of adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2019Article
- Do Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders Help Other People With Autism Spectrum Disorders? An Investigation of Empathy and Helping Motivation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Association between maternal Autism Spectrum Quotient scores and the tendency to see pragmatic impairments as a problem.PloS one · 2018Article
- Whose Expertise Is It? Evidence for Autistic Adults as Critical Autism Experts.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Decision making processes based on social conventional rules in early adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorders.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are generally thought to lack empathy. However, according to recent empirical and self-advocacy studies, individuals with ASD identify with others with ASD. Based on mutual understanding, individuals with ASD respond empathically to others with these disorders. Results have shown that typically developing (TD) adults identify with TD fictional characters, and that such identification plays a critical role in social cognition. TD individuals retrieve episodes involving TD individuals faster than they retrieve episodes involving ASD individuals. Individuals with ASD also show a "similarity effect" whereby they retrieve stories involving ASD individuals more effectively when the stories have consistent outcomes than when they have inconsistent outcomes. In this context, I hypothesized that similarities between a perceiver and a target facilitate cognitive processing. This hypothesis was named the "similarity hypothesis". Perceivers empathize with targets similar to themselves, which facilitates subsequent cognitive processing. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies are reviewed based on the similarity hypothesis.
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