This review assessed the specificity of facial emotion recognition impairment and the role of
task characteristics in facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Based …

Behavioral studies of facial emotion recognition (FER) in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
have yielded mixed results. Here we address demographic and experiment-related factors …

Determining the integrity of emotion recognition in autistic spectrum disorder is important to
our theoretical understanding of autism and to teaching social skills. Previous studies have …

The present study aimed to quantify the magnitude of sex differences in humans' ability to
accurately recognise non-verbal emotional displays. Studies of relevance were those that …

Decety and JT Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551–64.
New York: Oxford University Press. The literature on the neuroscience of empathy, while …

Initially thought of as a unitary ability, empathy has been more recently considered to consist
of 2 components (ie, an affective and a cognitive component). The Basic Empathy Scale …

Theorists from diverse disciplines purport narrative fiction serves to foster empathic
development and growth. In two studies, participants' subjective, behavioral, and perceptual …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by social impairments, including
inappropriate responses to affective stimuli and nonverbal cues, which may extend to poor …

Empathy allows individuals to share the affective states of others, predict others' actions, and
stimulate prosocial behavior. Whilst the proximate mechanisms of empathy, modulated in …

Answers to the question “What are human emotions for?” have stimulated highly productive
programs of research on emotional phenomena in psychology and neuroscience in the past …