Over the past 15 years, psychologists embraced the importance social connections more
than ever before. The chapters that included in the Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion …

Ostracism, or the perception of being ignored by others, is an aversive behavior that is
universal to the human species. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at an …

This chapter outlines the substantial linguistic, pharmacological, and neural evidence
supporting the hypothesis that there is an overlap in the systems responsible for physical …

Social interactions between individuals, particularly within groups, constitute a vital aspect of
animal survival across nearly all species. In particular, higher level, evolutionarily preserved …

Nearly 200 reports of functional MRI (fMRI) studies in autism have been published, including
an extensive literature of differential brain activation in autism during cognitive tasks. A …

Music has the innate potential to reach all parts of the brain, stimulates certain brain areas
which are not achievable through other modalities. Music Therapy (MT) is being used for …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) do not attend to, value, and learn from
social feedback in the same way as their typically developing (TD) peers, which may have a …

Veel kinderen en volwassenen lijden aan een autisme spectrum stoornis (ASS). Er is steeds
meer interesse in de invloed van oxytocine op het gedrag en de ontwikkeling van ASS. In …

This study investigated the effects of four neurotypical preschoolers' attitudes towards nine of
their peers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how that impacts their play behaviors …