Advanced Mind-Reading in Adults with Asperger Syndrome
| Autor: | Eva Van Der Heyden, Koen Ponnet, Ann Buysse, Armand De Clercq, Herbert Roeyers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Adult
Male 030506 rehabilitation media_common.quotation_subject Empathy Neuropsychological Tests Severity of Illness Index Developmental psychology Thinking 03 medical and health sciences Empathic accuracy Social cognition Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Pervasive developmental disorder Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Asperger Syndrome media_common Social perception 05 social sciences Recognition Psychology Cognition medicine.disease Social Perception Asperger syndrome Autism Female Cognition Disorders 0305 other medical science Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Autism. 8:249-266 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7005 1362-3613 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1362361304045214 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the mind-reading abilities of 19 adults with Asperger syndrome and 19 typically developing adults. Two static mind-reading tests and a more naturalistic empathic accuracy task were used. In the empathic accuracy task, participants attempted to infer the thoughts and feelings of target persons, while viewing a videotape of the target persons in a naturally occurring conversation with another person. The results are consistent with earlier findings. The empathic accuracy task indicated significant between-group differences, whereas no such differences were found on the static mind-reading tasks. The most innovative finding of the present study is that the inference ability of adults with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and controls depends on the focus of the target’s thoughts and feelings, and that the empathic accuracy of adults with Asperger syndrome and control adults might be different in terms of quantity and quality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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