Misinterpretation of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Verbal Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Eack, Shaun M.; Mazefsky, Carla A.; Minshew, Nancy J.
Titel	Misinterpretation of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Verbal Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 19 (2015) 3, S.308-315 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361314520755
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Emotional Response; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Adults; Comparative Analysis; Misconceptions; Human Body; Perceptual Impairments; Emotional Intelligence; Cognitive Processes; Social Cognition; Individual Characteristics; Visual Stimuli; Pennsylvania; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Emotionales Verhalten; Autismus; Missverständnis; Menschlicher Körper; Perceptual handicaps; Wahrnehmungsstörung; Emotionale Intelligenz; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Soziale Kognition; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Facial emotion perception is significantly affected in autism spectrum disorder, yet little is known about how individuals with autism spectrum disorder misinterpret facial expressions that result in their difficulty in accurately recognizing emotion in faces. This study examined facial emotion perception in 45 verbal adults with autism spectrum disorder and 30 age- and gender-matched volunteers without autism spectrum disorder to identify patterns of emotion misinterpretation during face processing that contribute to emotion recognition impairments in autism. Results revealed that difficulty distinguishing emotional from neutral facial expressions characterized much of the emotion perception impairments exhibited by participants with autism spectrum disorder. In particular, adults with autism spectrum disorder uniquely misinterpreted happy faces as neutral, and were significantly more likely than typical volunteers to attribute negative valence to nonemotional faces. The over-attribution of emotions to neutral faces was significantly related to greater communication and emotional intelligence impairments in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. These findings suggest a potential negative bias toward the interpretation of facial expressions and may have implications for interventions designed to remediate emotion perception in autism spectrum disorder. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01