Journal
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 241-251Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963001006643
Keywords
theory of mind; Asperger's Disorder; autistic disorder; social cognition
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- Medical Research Council [G0600977] Funding Source: Medline
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In 1997 in this Journal we published the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, as a measure of adult mentalising''. Whilst that test succeeded in discriminating a group of adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) from controls, it suffered from several psychometric problems. In this paper these limitations are rectified by revising the test. The Revised Eyes Test was administered to a group of adults with AS or HFA (N = 15) and again discriminated these from a large number of normal controls (N = 239) drawn from different samples. In both the clinical and control groups the Eyes Test was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence. The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity.
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