Publications by authors named "Jennifer Louise Cook"
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- - Recent research highlights that stigma and the need to camouflage traits contribute to mental health issues for autistic individuals, but most data comes from the UK.
- - A study involving 306 autistic adults from eight different countries aimed to explore the relationships between autism acceptance, camouflaging behaviors, and mental health across cultures.
- - Results showed that greater acceptance (both external and personal) linked to lower depression levels, while higher camouflaging correlated with increased depression, anxiety, and stress; notable differences in these factors were observed across different countries.
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- Some individuals are better at interpreting emotional expressions than others, and this study investigates how our internal emotional experiences influence our expectations and ability to read emotions in others.
- Two mapping tools, EmoMap and ExpressionMap, were developed to categorize adults' emotional experiences and their visual interpretations of others' emotions, revealing two types of emotional maps: modular (distinct emotions) and variable (overlapping emotions).
- The research presents the Inside Out Model of Emotion Recognition, which accounts for a significant portion of the variance in recognizing emotions and sheds light on challenges faced by various clinical populations in understanding emotions.
Facial Expression Production and Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Shifting Landscape.
Psychiatr Clin North Am
March 2021
Social "difficulties" associated with ASD may be a product of neurotypical-autistic differences in emotion expression and recognition. Research suggests that neurotypical and autistic individuals exhibit expressive differences, with autistic individuals displaying less frequent expressions that are rated lower in quality by non-autistic raters. Autistic individuals have difficulties recognizing neurotypical facial expressions; neurotypical individuals have difficulties recognizing autistic expressions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFacial Expression Production and Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Shifting Landscape.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
July 2020
Social "difficulties" associated with ASD may be a product of neurotypical-autistic differences in emotion expression and recognition. Research suggests that neurotypical and autistic individuals exhibit expressive differences, with autistic individuals displaying less frequent expressions that are rated lower in quality by non-autistic raters. Autistic individuals have difficulties recognizing neurotypical facial expressions; neurotypical individuals have difficulties recognizing autistic expressions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDominant individuals report high levels of self-sufficiency, self-esteem, and authoritarianism. The lay stereotype suggests that such individuals ignore information from others, preferring to make their own choices. However, the nonhuman animal literature presents a conflicting view, suggesting that dominant individuals are avid social learners, whereas subordinates focus on learning from private experience.
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