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Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain
Social-communication impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often ascribed to deficits in empathy. I argue that social-communicative deficits in ASD stem from impairments in specific aspects of empathy, rather than a general empathy impairment. Empathy is defined as the sharing of another...
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Department of Psychology
2017
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