Category: Emotion

High-functioning individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) sometimes get very upset and angry. Because other people get upset and angry too, one might wonder whether people with ASD are more likely than others to do so. If so, Samson and colleagues reasoned that people with high-functioning ASD may have more difficulty regulating their emotions. These researchers therefore compared 27 high-functioning ASD research participants with 27 matched neurotypical controls. They found that participants with high-functioning ASD experienced higher levels of negative emotions than the controls and were more likely to have difficulty regulating their emotions.

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