Brief report: Insight into illness and social attributional style in asperger's syndrome

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2754-2760

  Didehbani, Nyaz ^a   Shad, Mujeeb U ^b   Kandalaft, Michelle R ^a   Allen, Tandra T ^a   Tamminga, Carol A ^c   Krawczyk, Daniel C ^a,c   Chapman, Sandra B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asperger's; Attribution, externalizing bias; Autism; Insight; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; ADOLESCENT; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876472518     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1532-x     Document Type: Article

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