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KMID : 0894920090090010079
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2009 Volume.9 No. 1 p.79 ~ p.99
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A Literature Review on Empathy in Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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Lee Eun-Jung
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Abstract
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Empathy is essential to understand and share other’s emotions and mental state, which has been reported to be closely related, but challenged, for individuals with autistic developmental disorder (ASD) in developing prosocial behaviors. This study reviewed a body of research on empathy in ASD, focusing on 18 experimental studies which had been published either in American or British journals since 2000. As a result, distinctive features from each research component were as follows: cognitive psychological analysis on empathic characteristics(research type); high-functioning autism/Asperger‘s syndrome(participant); cognitive and affective empathy; multimodal information processing/experimental instruments with ecologically valid and natural context(method); mostly significant differences in various empathy tasks compared with matched controls and untypical(result). Further discussion on the results and implications for future research and practices were entailed.
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KEYWORD
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Autism, Empathy, Emotion
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