Affect Expression During Social and Non-Social Contexts in Autistic Young Adults.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in social affective engagement. The present study uses a mild social stressor task to add to inconclusive past literature concerning differences in affective expressivity between autistic young adults and non-autistic individuals from th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 2091 - 2102 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2026
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