What is it about?
This study is about children and adolescents with high-functioning autism of normal intelligence using Happé’s Strange Stories test to assess their ability to infer mental states.
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Why is it important?
Compared to age-matched typically developing peers, the group comprising individuals with autism performed worse in making correct mental state inferences but did well on a physical state control task.
Perspectives
These results support earlier evidence that high-functioning individuals with autism have difficulty using mental state terms correctly in various social situations, including jokes, lies, irony, persuasion, and misunderstandings.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: The Strange Stories test, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, March 2005, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-005-0434-2.
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