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The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High-functioning Autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2001

Simon Baron-Cohen ,
Sally Wheelwright ,
Jacqueline Hill ,
Yogini Raste  and
Ian Plumb
Simon Baron-Cohen
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Sally Wheelwright
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Jacqueline Hill
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Yogini Raste
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Ian Plumb
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, U.K.
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Abstract

In 1997 in this Journal we published the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test, as a measure of adult “mentalising”. Whilst that test succeeded in discriminating a group of adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) from controls, it suffered from several psychometric problems. In this paper these limitations are rectified by revising the test. The Revised Eyes Test was administered to a group of adults with AS or HFA (N = 15) and again discriminated these from a large number of normal controls (N = 239) drawn from different samples. In both the clinical and control groups the Eyes Test was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence. The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity.

Keywords

Theory of mindAsperger's Disorderautistic disordersocial cognition
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The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 241 - 251
Copyright
© 2001 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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