Empathy and Autism: Establishing the Structure and Different Manifestations of Empathy in Autistic Individuals Using the Perth Empathy Scale.
Jack D BrettDavid A PreeceRodrigo BecerraAndrew J O WhitehouseMurray T MayberyPublished in: Journal of autism and developmental disorders (2024)
The present study highlights that the PES is suitable for assessing empathy across autistic and non-autistic individuals. This work with the PES also provides greater nuance to our understanding of empathy and autism, and based on these findings, we propose the empathy heterogeneity hypothesis of autism as a new way of describing empathy in autism.