Toward a Socio-Material Approach to Cognitive Empathy in Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Frontiers in Psychology

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Antonella Marchetti¹  Laura Miraglia²  Cinzia Di Dio¹ 

[1] Research Unit on Theory of Mind, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

关键词: Theory of Mind;    cognitive empathy;    ToM precursors;    ASD;    child-adult relationship;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02965

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In everyday life, actions and decisions are defined by a continuous interplay between cognitive andaffective dimensions (Milani and Gagliardi, 2013; Lombardi et al., 2017) where empathy plays acentral role (Eisenberg and Strayer, 1987). Empathy underpins the synchronous social responseto another person’s mental state and behavior. It represents a particular experience because it isnot a directly accessible state: in contrast to other psychological constructs, it is neither a conduct,nor is always evident through specific behavioral expressions (Bonino et al., 1998). Empathy islike a dance between two individuals whose steps move between cognition and affects. Withina socio-material approach to development, in this paper we argue that motivated shared goaldirected actions toward an object may effectively mediate child-adult relationship by acting on theprecursors of Theory of Mind (ToM), a cognitive component of empathy.

【 授权许可】

CC BY