ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2016
Do Adults with High Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome Differ in Empathy and Emotion Recognition?
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- Autism-associated gene shank3 is necessary for social contagion in zebrafish.Molecular autism · 2023Article
- Reading the room: Autistic traits, gaze behaviour, and the ability to infer social relationships.PloS one · 2023Article
- Empathic disequilibrium in two different measures of empathy predicts autism traits in neurotypical population.Molecular autism · 2020Article
- Theory of Mind Performance in Broad Autism Phenotype Groups: Between-Group Differences and Predictor Variables.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- [Development of social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder and related influencing factors].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2019Article
- The effect of emotional information from eyes on empathy for pain: A subliminal ERP study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Subtyping the Autism Spectrum Disorder: Comparison of Children with High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Maternal and Family Processes in Different Subgroups of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Color Vision Losses in Autism Spectrum Disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Brain Structural Covariance Network in Asperger Syndrome Differs From Those in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Healthy Controls.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
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Abstract
The present study examined whether adults with high functioning autism (HFA) showed greater difficulties in (1) their self-reported ability to empathise with others and/or (2) their ability to read mental states in others' eyes than adults with Asperger syndrome (AS). The Empathy Quotient (EQ) and 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test (Eyes Test) were compared in 43 adults with AS and 43 adults with HFA. No significant difference was observed on EQ score between groups, while adults with AS performed significantly better on the Eyes Test than those with HFA. This suggests that adults with HFA may need more support, particularly in mentalizing and complex emotion recognition, and raises questions about the existence of subgroups within autism spectrum conditions.
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