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ArticleRoyal Society open science2016

Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception.

Rebecca Brewer, Richard Cook, Geoffrey Bird

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 162 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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162citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
17.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

162 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 383 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Associations Between Autism and Self-Reported Dimensions of Interoception.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  15. How alexithymia shapes functional networks: Insights from a general population study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rebecca BrewerMRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; School of Psychology, University of East London, University Way, London E16 2RD.ORCID 0000-0001-8170-7590
Richard CookDepartment of Psychology , City University London , London EC1V OHB , UK.
Geoffrey BirdMRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK.
City, University of London · GBKing's College London · GBUniversity of London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alexithymia is a sub-clinical construct, traditionally characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's own emotions. Despite the clear need for interoception (interpreting physical signals from the body) when identifying one's own emotions, little research has focused on the selectivity of this impairment. While it was originally assumed that the interoceptive deficit in alexithymia is specific to emotion, recent evidence suggests that alexithymia may also be associated with difficulties perceiving some non-affective interoceptive signals, such as one's heart rate. It is therefore possible that the impairment experienced by those with alexithymia is common to all aspects of interoception, such as interpreting signals of hunger, arousal, proprioception, tiredness and temperature. In order to determine whether alexithymia is associated with selectively impaired affective interoception, or general interoceptive impairment, we investigated the association between alexithymia and self-reported non-affective interoceptive ability, and the extent to which individuals perceive similarity between affective and non-affective states (both measured using questionnaires developed for the purpose of the current study), in both typical individuals (

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alexithymiaemotioninteroception

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PMID27853532
PMCPMC5098957
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