ArticleScientific reports2021
Multifaceted empathy differences in children and adults with autism.
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- The Moderating Effect of Sex on Autistic Trait Emotional Intelligence, Alexithymia, and Empathy.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Empathy and Autism: Establishing the Structure and Different Manifestations of Empathy in Autistic Individuals Using the Perth Empathy Scale.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Comparative Effectiveness of Human- and Robot-Based Interventions in Increasing Empathy Among Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Are we capturing individual differences? Evaluating the test-retest reliability of experimental tasks used to measure social cognitive abilities.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- A sensorimotor basis for facial expressivity differences in autism.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Inferential Emotion Tracking reveals impaired context-based emotion processing in individuals with high Autism Quotient scores.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The relationship between alexithymia, interoception, and neural functional connectivity during facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Individual differences in brain structure and self-reported empathy in children.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Identifying and describing subtypes of spontaneous empathic facial expression production in autistic adults.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2022Article
- Investigating the Relationship between Facial Mimicry and Empathy.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although empathy impairments have been reported in autistic individuals, there is no clear consensus on how emotional valence influences this multidimensional process. In this study, we use the Multifaceted Empathy Test for juveniles (MET-J) to interrogate emotional and cognitive empathy in 184 participants (ages 8-59 years, 83 autistic) under the robust Bayesian inference framework. Group comparisons demonstrate previously unreported interaction effects between: (1) valence and autism diagnosis in predictions of emotional resonance, and (2) valence and age group in predictions of arousal to images portraying positive and negative facial expressions. These results extend previous studies using the MET by examining differential effects of emotional valence in a large sample of autistic children and adults with average or above-average intelligence. We report impaired cognitive empathy in autism, and subtle differences in emotional empathy characterized by less distinction between emotional resonance to positive vs. negative facial expressions in autism compared to neurotypicals. Reduced emotional differentiation between positive and negative affect in others could be a mechanism for diminished social reciprocity that poses a universal challenge for people with autism. These component- and valence- specific findings are of clinical relevance for the development and implementation of target-specific social interventions in autism.
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