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

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 dimini...

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Main Authors:	Pastore, Luigi, Dellantonio, Sara, Mulatti, Claudio, Esposito, Gianluca
Other Authors:	School of Social Sciences
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Autism Spectrum Disorders Alexithymia Social sciences::Psychology
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107119 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002315
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1071192019-12-10T12:52:12Z To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders Pastore, Luigi Dellantonio, Sara Mulatti, Claudio Esposito, Gianluca School of Social Sciences Social & Affiliative Neuroscience Lab Autism Spectrum Disorders Alexithymia Social sciences::Psychology 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. Accepted version 2019-08-20T04:06:13Z 2019-12-06T22:25:09Z 2019-08-20T04:06:13Z 2019-12-06T22:25:09Z 2019 Journal Article Pastore, L., Dellantonio, S., Mulatti, C., & Esposito, G. (2019). To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e106-. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18002315 0140-525X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107119 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002315 en Behavioral and Brain Sciences © 2019 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is made available with permission of Cambridge University Press. 4 p. application/pdf
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description	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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title	To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
title_short	To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
title_full	To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
title_fullStr	To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
title_full_unstemmed	To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
title_sort	to be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders
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To be or not to be emotionally aware and socially motivated : how alexithymia impacts autism spectrum disorders

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