Capps L, Kasari C, Yirmiya N, Sigman M
University of California Medical School, Los Angeles.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1993 Jun;61(3):475-84. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.61.3.475.
Parents' perceptions of their children's emotional expressiveness, and possible bases for these perceptions, were investigated in a study comparing older, nonretarded autistic and normal children and in another study comparing young autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children. Both groups of autistic children were perceived as showing more negative emotion and less positive emotion than comparison children. In the younger sample, parental perceptions correlated with the children's attention and responsiveness to others' displays of emotion in 2 laboratory situations. Findings contradict the view that autism involves the "absence of emotional reaction" (American Psychiatric Association, 1987, p. 35).
在一项比较年龄较大的非智障自闭症儿童和正常儿童的研究以及另一项比较年幼的自闭症儿童、智障儿童和正常儿童的研究中，调查了父母对其孩子情绪表达的看法以及形成这些看法的可能依据。与对照组儿童相比，两组自闭症儿童都被认为表现出更多的负面情绪和更少的正面情绪。在较年幼的样本中，父母的看法与孩子在两种实验室情境中对他人情绪表现的注意力和反应能力相关。研究结果与自闭症涉及“缺乏情绪反应”这一观点相矛盾（美国精神病学协会，1987年，第35页）。
