Empathy accounts for the naturally occurring subjective experience of similarity between the
feelings expressed by self and others without loosing sight of whose feelings belong to …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Background Manifestations of core social deficits in autism are more pronounced in
everyday settings than in explicit experimental tasks. To bring experimental measures in line …

In the interest of more systematically documenting the early signs of autism, and of testing
specific hypotheses regarding their underlying neurodevelopmental substrates, we have …

Autism spectrum disorder is a construct used to describe individuals with a specific
combination of impairments in social communication and repetitive behaviours, highly …

This study investigated social attention impairments in autism (social orienting, joint
attention, and attention to another's distress) and their relations to language ability. Three-to …

During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

Behavioral studies of facial emotion recognition (FER) in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
have yielded mixed results. Here we address demographic and experiment-related factors …

Advances in the fields of cognitive and affective developmental neuroscience,
developmental psychopathology, neurobiology, genetics, and applied behavior analysis …