caa a22 4500 463250591 CHVBK 20180405153339.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10803-006-0197-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10803-006-0197-8 Who Cares? Revisiting Empathy in Asperger Syndrome [Elektronische Daten] [Kimberley Rogers, Isabel Dziobek, Jason Hassenstab, Oliver Wolf, Antonio Convit] A deficit in empathy has consistently been cited as a central characteristic of Asperger syndrome (AS), but previous research on adults has predominantly focused on cognitive empathy, effectively ignoring the role of affective empathy. We administered the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a multi-dimensional measure of empathy, and the Strange Stories test to 21 adults with AS and 21 matched controls. Our data show that while the AS group scored lower on the measures of cognitive empathy and theory of mind, they were no different from controls on one affective empathy scale of the IRI (empathic concern), and scored higher than controls on the other (personal distress). Therefore, we propose that the issue of empathy in AS should be revisited. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Empathy nationallicence Asperger syndrome nationallicence Autism nationallicence Theory of mind nationallicence Social cognition nationallicence Rogers Kimberley Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut Dziobek Isabel Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut Hassenstab Jason Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut Wolf Oliver Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany aut Convit Antonio Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2007-04-01), 709-715 0162-3257 37:4<709 2007 37 10803 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0197-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0197-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rogers Kimberley Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dziobek Isabel Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hassenstab Jason Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wolf Oliver Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Convit Antonio Millhauser Laboratories (MHL-400), Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2007-04-01), 709-715 0162-3257 37:4<709 2007 37 10803 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer