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Title
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Advancing advanced mind-reading tests: empathic accuracy in adults with a pervasive development disorder
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Author
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Abstract
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| Research using advanced but static mind-reading tests with high-functioning adults with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) provided evidence for subtle social cognitive de®cits. In the present study, adults with PDD were unimpaired on such tasks, relative to individually matched normal controls. Signi®cant differences between the two groups were, however, found on a more naturalistic empathic accuracy task developed for this study. Participants viewed two videotaped interactions that both depicted a male and female stranger having an initial conversation and were asked to infer the unexpressed thoughts and feelings of the four targets. Subjects with PDD performed signi®cantly worse on the second video. These ®ndings suggest that the mind-reading de®cit of a subgroup of able adults with PDD may only be apparent when a sufficiently complex naturalistic assessment method is being used |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines. - Oxford
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Publication
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Oxford
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2001
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ISSN
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0021-9630
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DOI
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10.1111/1469-7610.00718
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Volume/pages
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42
:2
(2001)
, p. 271-278
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ISI
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000168461100012
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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