Social cognition is a complex process that requires the integration of a wide variety of
behaviors, including salience, reward-seeking, motivation, knowledge of self and others …

Children vary in their ability to use language in social contexts and this has important
consequences for wellbeing. We review studies that test whether individual differences in …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

Empathy is an essential part of normal social functioning, yet there are precious few
instruments for measuring individual differences in this domain. In this article we review …

Research has suggested that the core handicaps of autism result from a specific impairment
in theory of mind (ToM). However, this account has been challenged by the finding that a …

The mind‐blindness theory of autism spectrum conditions has been successful in explaining
the social and communication difficulties that characterize these conditions but cannot …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …

The theory of mind account of autism has been remarkably successful in making specific
predictions about the impairments in socialization, imagination and communication shown …

Previous studies have found a subgroup of people with autism or Asperger Syndrome who
pass second‐order tests of theory of mind. However, such tests have a ceiling in …

A group of high‐functioning autistic individuals was compared to a clinical control group
matched on VTQ, age, sex and SES. Significant group differences were found on executive …