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Peer reviewedHappe, Francesca G. E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Testing with a battery of naturalistic stories found that the 24 subjects with autism were impaired (compared to normal and mentally disabled controls) at providing context-appropriate mental state explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances. Even those autistic subjects who performed well on standard Theory of Mind tasks showed…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Empathy, Evaluation Methods
