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Advanced Mind-Reading in Adults with Asperger Syndrome

Koen S. Ponnet

Ghent University, Belgium, koen.ponnet{at}UGent.be

Herbert Roeyers

Ghent University, Belgium

Ann Buysse

Ghent University, Belgium

Armand De Clercq

Ghent University, Belgium

Eva Van Der Heyden

Ghent University, Belgium

This study investigated the mind-reading abilities of 19 adults with Asperger syndrome and 19 typically developing adults. Two static mind-reading tests and a more naturalistic empathic accuracy task were used. In the empathic accuracy task, participants attempted to infer the thoughts and feelings of target persons, while viewing a videotape of the target persons in a naturally occurring conversation with another person. The results are consistent with earlier findings. The empathic accuracy task indicated significant between-group differences, whereas no such differences were found on the static mind-reading tasks. The most innovative finding of the present study is that the inference ability of adults with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and controls depends on the focus of the target’s thoughts and feelings, and that the empathic accuracy of adults with Asperger syndrome and control adults might be different in terms of quantity and quality.

Key Words: Asperger syndrome • empathic accuracy • perspective taking • social cognition

Autism, Vol. 8, No. 3, 249-266 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1362361304045214
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