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Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which
are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …

The claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind—that they fail to understand that other
people have a mind or that they themselves have a mind—pervades psychology. This article …

Theories of early social‐cognitive development privilege infants' use of gaze as a cue to
others' attention and intentions. Mutual gaze is assumed to indicate social engagement …

People seem to have access to the workings of their own minds but not to the workings of
other minds. Philosophically speaking, this is supposed to create a problem for us. Because …

There has been a widely held belief that people with autism spectrum disorders lack
empathy. This article examines the empathy imbalance hypothesis (EIH) of autism …

This analysis argues that social deficit theories exacerbate the worst excesses of the
medical model, a framework that attributes autism (in this example) as the cause of a …

Chapter Synopsis: This review summarizes a range of historical, current, and emerging
proposals about autistic learning, covering accounts of learning in the autism intervention …

Whereas the autism prevalence rate has been very closely monitored in the United States,
the same has not been observed in many other countries. This may be attributed to the fact …

It's become a caricature of autistic persons that they don't understand figurative language.
Despite empirical evidence to the contrary, three of the four contributions to this special …