Complex Emotion Recognition and Theory of Mind: Pride Comprehension by Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
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Authors
Connors, Caitlin M.
Issue Date
2004
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The present study offers important new information about the ability
of autistic individuals to understand and explain complex emotions. The inclusion of the
simple emotion scenario type helped clarify Hillier and Allinson's (2002) previous
findings on emotion comprehension in autism; beyond simply recognizing differences
between complex emotion-type and emotion-neutral scenarios, autistic participants were
shown to be able to differentiate between simple and complex positive emotions and alter
emotion ratings accordingly. Yet, the present study also confirms previous findings that
emotion understanding is relatively impaired in autistic individuals as compared to
normally developing children, particularly understanding of complex emotions.
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64 p.
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