Facial Expressions of Affect in Autistic, Mentally Retarded and Normal Children

Nurit Yirmiya; Connie Kasari; Marian Sigman; Peter Mundy

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00785.x

Facial Expressions of Affect in Autistic, Mentally Retarded and Normal Children

Nurit Yirmiya, Connie Kasari, Marian Sigman^*, Peter Mundy

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Abstract

Abstract This study examined the facial affect expressions of autistic, mentally retarded and normal children. Affect was coded using the Maximally Discriminative Movement Coding System. Results indicated that the autistic children were more flat/neutral in their affect expression than the mentally retarded children. Moreover, they displayed a variety of ambiguous expressions not displayed by any of the other children. This unique pattern may be related to the difficulties that autistic children have in sharing affect, and to the difficulties that others experience in reading their affective signals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	725-735
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Volume	30
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00785.x
State	Published - Sep 1989
Externally published	Yes

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Affect
autism
facial expression

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