Do Adults with High Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome Differ in Empathy and Emotion Recognition?

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 ‘...

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Autores principales: Montgomery, Charlotte B., Allison, Carrie, Lai, Meng-Chuan, Cassidy, Sarah, Langdon, Peter E., Baron-Cohen, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26883645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2698-4
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Allison, Carrie
Lai, Meng-Chuan
Cassidy, Sarah
Langdon, Peter E.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-48601942016-05-21 Do Adults with High Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome Differ in Empathy and Emotion Recognition? Montgomery, Charlotte B. Allison, Carrie Lai, Meng-Chuan Cassidy, Sarah Langdon, Peter E. Baron-Cohen, Simon J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper 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. Springer US 2016-02-16 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4860194/ /pubmed/26883645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2698-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_sort do adults with high functioning autism or asperger syndrome differ in empathy and emotion recognition?
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