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How High-Functioning Children with Autism Understand Real and Deceptive Emotion

Maureen Dennis

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Linda Lockyer

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Anne L. Lazenby

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Autism is associated with problems in understanding and expressing emotion. We compared the ability of eight high- functioning children with autism (i.e. those with IQ scores ≥ 70) and eight age- and gender-matched controls with similar oral language development, to understand the facial expression of real and deceptive emotion. Children with autism had limited understanding of socially derived emotion. Although they could relate emotions to standard facial expressions, they were less able than controls to indicate the real emotions story characters feel, the deceptive emotions they express in the face, or the social reasons prompting a deceptive facial expression. For high- function children with autism, facial expressions may function as lexical codes but not as forms of social communication that modify beliefs.

Key Words: autism • deception • emotion • highfunctioning autism

Autism, Vol. 4, No. 4, 370-381 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/1362361300004004003
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