Cognitive empathy in autistic children: Differences across social and non-social contexts and emotion types / Weitao ZHANG in Research in Autism, 136 (August 2026)  

Public ISBD [article]  inResearch in Autism > 136 (August 2026) . - 202957 Titre : Cognitive empathy in autistic children: Differences across social and non-social contexts and emotion types Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Weitao ZHANG, Auteur ; Jie ZHANG, Auteur ; Zhihan YANG, Auteur ; Lijuan ZOU, Auteur ; Sutao SONG, Auteur Article en page(s) : 202957 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism spectrum disorder  Cognitive empathy  Social context  Theory of mind  Social emotion Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Cognitive empathy difficulties are often observed in autism, but research on the factors associated with these difficulties remains limited. This study investigated whether social and non-social contexts are associated with contextualized cognitive empathy performance for different emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) in autistic children. Thirty autistic children (mean age = 9.00 ± 0.70 years, range = 8–10 years) and 30 non-autistic children watched a series of video-based emotional situations depicting everyday experiences in either social (involving peer interactions) or non-social contexts. Afterward, they answered questions designed to assess their contextualized cognitive empathy performance. Compared to non-autistic children, autistic children had lower cognitive empathy task scores across all types of emotion, though their scores were relatively higher for happiness than for other emotions. Additionally, among autistic children, cognitive empathy task scores were lower in social contexts than in non-social contexts for happiness, anger, and fear, but not for sadness. These findings provide preliminary evidence that contextualized cognitive empathy performance may vary across social and non-social contexts in autistic children. Stronger conclusions about emotion-specific contextual effects require further investigation. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2026.202957 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=592 [article] Cognitive empathy in autistic children: Differences across social and non-social contexts and emotion types [texte imprimé] / Weitao ZHANG, Auteur ; Jie ZHANG, Auteur ; Zhihan YANG, Auteur ; Lijuan ZOU, Auteur ; Sutao SONG, Auteur . - 202957. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Research in Autism > 136 (August 2026) . - 202957 Mots-clés : Autism spectrum disorder  Cognitive empathy  Social context  Theory of mind  Social emotion Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Cognitive empathy difficulties are often observed in autism, but research on the factors associated with these difficulties remains limited. This study investigated whether social and non-social contexts are associated with contextualized cognitive empathy performance for different emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) in autistic children. Thirty autistic children (mean age = 9.00 ± 0.70 years, range = 8–10 years) and 30 non-autistic children watched a series of video-based emotional situations depicting everyday experiences in either social (involving peer interactions) or non-social contexts. Afterward, they answered questions designed to assess their contextualized cognitive empathy performance. Compared to non-autistic children, autistic children had lower cognitive empathy task scores across all types of emotion, though their scores were relatively higher for happiness than for other emotions. Additionally, among autistic children, cognitive empathy task scores were lower in social contexts than in non-social contexts for happiness, anger, and fear, but not for sadness. These findings provide preliminary evidence that contextualized cognitive empathy performance may vary across social and non-social contexts in autistic children. Stronger conclusions about emotion-specific contextual effects require further investigation. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2026.202957 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=592

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