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Empathic Accuracy and Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Young Adults With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Journal

JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 2004-2018

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SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-05093-7

Keywords

Autism; ASD; Empathy; Affective empathy; Empathic accuracy; Alexithymia

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  1. Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

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The study found that individuals with ASD had deficits in tracking others' anger emotions, but did not significantly differ from typically-developing participants in cognitive empathy and affective empathy. Additionally, the ASD group showed lower levels of empathy and empathic concern in a self-report questionnaire.
This study investigated whether young adults with ASD (n = 29) had impairments in Cognitive Empathy (CE), Affective Empathy (AE) or Empathic Accuracy (EA; the ability to track changes in others' thoughts and feelings) compared to typically-developing individuals (n = 31) using the Empathic Accuracy Task (EAT), which involves watching narrators recollecting emotionally-charged autobiographical events. Participants provided continuous ratings of the narrators' emotional intensity (indexing EA), labelled the emotions displayed (CE) and reported whether they shared the depicted emotions (AE). The ASD group showed deficits in EA for anger but did not differ from typically-developing participants in CE or AE on the EAT. The ASD group also reported lower CE (Perspective Taking) and AE (Empathic Concern) on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, a self-report questionnaire.

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