Emotional contagion in children with autism spectrum disorder varies with stimulus familiarity and task instructions
| Autor: | Molly S. Helt, Jacob E. Vargas, Deborah Fein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Parents Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder Emotional empathy media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Emotional contagion Empathy Stimulus (physiology) Peer Group 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Laughter 03 medical and health sciences Child Development 0302 clinical medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child media_common 05 social sciences Recognition Psychology medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Autism spectrum disorder Child Preschool Cognitive empathy Eye tracking Female Yawning Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Development and Psychopathology. 32:383-393 |
| ISSN: | 1469-2198 0954-5794 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0954579419000154 |
| Popis: | Although deficits in cognitive empathy are well established in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the literature on emotional empathy, or emotional contagion, in individuals with ASD is sparse and contradictory. The authors tested susceptibility to contagious yawning and laughter in children with ASD (n = 60) and typically developing (TD) children (n = 60), ages 5–17 years, under various conditions, to elucidate factors that may affect emotional contagion in these populations. Although TD children showed equal amounts of emotional contagion across conditions, children with ASD were highly influenced by the familiarity of the target stimulus, as well as task instructions that encourage eye gaze to target. More specifically, children with ASD exhibited less contagious yawning and laughter than their TD peers except when their attention was explicitly directed to the eyes or (and even more so) when their parents served as the stimulus targets. The authors explore the implications of these findings for theories about the mechanisms underlying empathic deficits in ASD as well as the clinical implications of having parents involved in treatment. |
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