Early studies on emotion processing in children and adolescents

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Table of contents

Chapter 1: General Introduction
1.1 Autism spectrum disorders
1.2 Why the face and why in autism? The case of facial expressions of emotion.
1.3 Processing of facial expressions of emotion in autism spectrum disorders
1.3.1 Early studies on emotion processing in children and adolescents
1.3.2 Matching and control group selection
1.3.3 Type of stimuli
1.3.4 Eye-region fixation
1.3.5 Age, why adolescents?
1.4 Relevant theoretical frameworks
1.4.1 Behavioural self-regulation accounts
1.4.2 Social motivation accounts
Chapter 2: Processing of social threats in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
2.1 Contextual effects on emotion processing in neurotypical populations
2.2 Contextual effects on emotion processing in autism spectrum disorders
2.3 Shared mechanism for emotion processing in adolescents with and without autism (Experiment 1)
Chapter 3: Adaptive responses to social threats in autism spectrum disorders
3.1 Adolescents with autism can use implicit social threat to adapt their behaviour (Experiment 2)
Chapter 4: General Discussion
4.1 Summary of goals
4.2 Preserved processing of social threats in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
4.3 Preserved responses to social threats in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
4.4 Impaired social motivation and/or impaired mechanisms?
4.5 Social threats: anger and fear
4.6 Limitations