To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated: How alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42 (2019)
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Autism often co-occurs with alexithymia, a condition characterized by no or diminished awareness of emotions that significantly impacts an individual's social relationships. We investigate how the social motivation of autistics would be eroded by comorbidity with alexithymia and why this diminished motivation would be difficult for non-autistic people to perceive and reciprocate.

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Sara Dellantonio
University of Trento
Luigi Pastore
Università degli Studi di Bari

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