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Methodological Issues for Experiments on Autistic Individuals' Perception and Understanding of Emotion
Author(s) -
Hobson R. Peter
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb00354.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , autism , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , emotion perception , domain (mathematical analysis) , neuroscience , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The purpose of this paper is to consider problems that arise in designing and interpreting experimental investigations of autistic children's capacities for perceiving and understanding emotion, and to offer a review of published studies. Attention is drawn to some strengths and limitations of the experimental approach in this domain.