Recognition of Emotions in Autism: A Formal Meta-Analysis

Determining the integrity of emotion recognition in autistic spectrum disorder is important to our theoretical understanding of autism and to teaching social skills. Previous studies have reported both positive and negative results. Here, we take a formal meta-analytic approach, bringing together da...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2013-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1517-1526
Main Authors: Uljarevic, Mirko, Hamilton, Antonia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autistic spectrum disorders
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child and School Psychology
Child clinical studies
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - diagnosis
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology
Control Groups
Developmental disorders
Discrimination (Psychology)
Effect Size
Emotion recognition
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Response
Emotions
Expressed emotion (Psychopathology)
Facial Expression
Fear
Female
Happiness
Humans
Infantile autism
Integrity
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relationship
Language Skills
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
Medicine, Experimental
Meta Analysis
Neurosciences
Original Paper
Participant Characteristics
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Psychological aspects
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public Health
Reading Ability
Recognition (Psychology)
Resistance (Psychology)
Sample Size
Semantics
Skill Development
Social Development
Systematic review
Young Adult
Young Children
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Summary:Determining the integrity of emotion recognition in autistic spectrum disorder is important to our theoretical understanding of autism and to teaching social skills. Previous studies have reported both positive and negative results. Here, we take a formal meta-analytic approach, bringing together data from 48 papers testing over 980 participants with autism. Results show there is an emotion recognition difficulty in autism, with a mean effect size of 0.80 which reduces to 0.41 when a correction for publication bias is applied. Recognition of happiness was only marginally impaired in autism, but recognition of fear was marginally worse than recognition of happiness. This meta-analysis provides an opportunity to survey the state of emotion recognition research in autism and to outline potential future directions.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-012-1695-5