Roeyers H, Buysse A, Ponnet K, Pichal B
Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2001 Feb;42(2):271-8.
Research using advanced but static mind-reading tests with high-functioning adults with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) provided evidence for subtle social cognitive deficits. In the present study, adults with PDD were unimpaired on such tasks, relative to individually matched normal controls. Significant differences between the two groups were, however, found on a more naturalistic empathic accuracy task developed for this study. Participants viewed two videotaped interactions that both depicted a male and female stranger having an initial conversation and were asked to infer the unexpressed thoughts and feelings of the four targets. Subjects with PDD performed significantly worse on the second video. These findings suggest that the mind-reading deficit of a subgroup of able adults with PDD may only be apparent when a sufficiently complex naturalistic assessment method is being used.
使用先进但静态的读心测试对患有广泛性发育障碍（PDD）的高功能成年人进行的研究，为细微的社会认知缺陷提供了证据。在本研究中，相对于个体匹配的正常对照组，患有PDD的成年人在此类任务上未受损。然而，在为本研究开发的更自然主义的共情准确性任务上，发现两组之间存在显著差异。参与者观看了两段录像互动，均描绘了一名男性和一名女性陌生人进行初次对话，并被要求推断四个目标未表达的想法和感受。患有PDD的受试者在第二段视频上的表现明显更差。这些发现表明，只有当使用足够复杂的自然主义评估方法时，患有PDD的能干成年人亚组的读心缺陷才可能显现出来。
