Not knowing what I feel: Emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorders
| Autor: | Skye McDonald, Jacqueline A. Rushby, Emily Trimmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Empathy Developmental psychology Arousal Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Intelligence quotient 05 social sciences Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychophysiology Autism spectrum disorder Case-Control Studies Trait Autism Female Self Report Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Autism. 21:450-457 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7005 1362-3613 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1362361316648520 |
| Popis: | While there is a general consensus in the literature that individuals with autism spectrum disorder have difficulty with cognitive empathy, much less is known about emotional empathy processing in these individuals. Most research has employed subjective self-report measures, which can often be misinterpreted or under-reported/over-reported. More objective measures such as psychophysiological recordings of arousal offer a more objective response. Furthermore, combining physiological responses with self-report ratings allows us to explore the relationship between these two responses to emotionally charged stimuli. A total of 25 individuals with autism spectrum disorder were compared with 25 matched controls on their physiological (arousal) and psychological (self-report) responses to emotionally distressing video scenes. These responses were also then compared with self-report cognitive and emotional trait empathy. Results indicate that while individuals with autism spectrum disorder appear to respond similarly to controls physiologically, their interpretation of this response is dampened emotionally. Furthermore, this dampening of self-report emotional response is associated with a general reduction in trait empathy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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