The ability to behave in ways that benefit other individuals' well-being is among the most
celebrated human characteristics crucial for social cohesiveness. Across mammalian …

Human emotional expressions serve a crucial communicatory role allowing the rapid
transmission of valence information from one individual to another. This paper will review …

There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the phenomenon of
empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning views, applying in varying …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

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 …

Autism, a severe disorder of development, is difficult to detect in very young children.
However, children who receive early intervention have improved long-term prognoses. The …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the information that pregnant
women report receiving when being counseled about weight gain and the risks of …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are largely characterized by deficits in imitation, pragmatic
language, theory of mind, and empathy. Previous research has suggested that a …

Sentimental Rules is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary work, which proposes and
defends a new theory about the nature and evolution of moral judgment. In it, philosopher …

Social interaction with peers and the understanding and feelings of loneliness were
examined in 18 high-functioning children with autism and 17 typically developing children …