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    Can adults with autism spectrum disorders infer what happened to someone from their emotional response

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    Publication date
    2014-02
    Author
    Cassidy, S.
    Ropar, D.
    Mitchell, Peter
    Chapman, P.
    Keyword
    Autism Eye tracking Face processing Retrodictive mindreading Spontaneous emotion recognition
    Autism
    Retrodictive mindreading
    Eye tracking
    Spontaneous emotion recognition
    Face processing
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    (c) 2014 Wiley. This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Cassidy, S. , Ropar, D. , Mitchell, P. and Chapman, P. (2014) Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?. Autism Research , volume 7 (1): 112-123, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1351. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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    Can adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) infer what happened to someone from their emotional response? Millikan has argued that in everyday life, others' emotions are most commonly used to work out the antecedents of behavior, an ability termed retrodictive mindreading. As those with ASD show difficulties interpreting others' emotions, we predicted that these individuals would have difficulty with retrodictive mindreading. Sixteen adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome and 19 typically developing adults viewed 21 video clips of people reacting to one of three gifts (chocolate, monopoly money, or a homemade novelty) and then inferred what gift the recipient received and the emotion expressed by that person. Participants' eye movements were recorded while they viewed the videos. Results showed that participants with ASD were only less accurate when inferring who received a chocolate or homemade gift. This difficulty was not due to lack of understanding what emotions were appropriate in response to each gift, as both groups gave consistent gift and emotion inferences significantly above chance (genuine positive for chocolate and feigned positive for homemade). Those with ASD did not look significantly less to the eyes of faces in the videos, and looking to the eyes did not correlate with accuracy on the task. These results suggest that those with ASD are less accurate when retrodicting events involving recognition of genuine and feigned positive emotions, and challenge claims that lack of attention to the eyes causes emotion recognition difficulties in ASD.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17897
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    Cassidy S, Ropar D, Mitchell P et al (2014) Can adults with autism spectrum disorders infer what happened to someone from their emotional response. Autism Research. 7(1): 112-123.
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1351
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