Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2020 Aug;50(8):3066-3070. doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04410-w.
Understanding other people's emotional states involves integrating multiple sources of information, such as someone's smile (affective cue) with our knowledge that they have passed an exam (situational cue). We explored whether autistic adults display differences in how they integrate these cues by showing participants videos of students receiving their exams results. Our results suggest autistic adults generally perform as neurotypical participants when identifying and integrating affective and situational cues. It was only in certain unfamiliar and ambiguous social situations that autistic adults assigned less weight to affective cues compared to situational cues when judging other people's emotional states.
理解他人的情绪状态涉及整合多种信息源，例如，某人的微笑（情感线索）和我们对他们通过考试的了解（情境线索）。我们通过向参与者展示学生收到考试成绩的视频，来探究自闭症成年人在整合这些线索时是否表现出差异。我们的研究结果表明，自闭症成年人在识别和整合情感和情境线索时，表现与神经典型参与者相似。只有在某些陌生和模棱两可的社交情境中，自闭症成年人在判断他人的情绪状态时，才会比情境线索赋予情感线索更少的权重。
