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25 Sep 2014, 10:20 pm

If looking at the social cognition aspect of autism, then the opposite of bad social cognition in autism is good social cognition in neurotypical people.


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26 Sep 2014, 4:48 am

Antisocial people (as well as Machiavellians and perhaps Narcississ) lack emotional empathy, but do they really have more than average cognitive empathy? I'd guess that the main antisocial symptoms (such as lack of emotional empathy, agression) are probably orthogonal to, or slightly negatively correlated to cognitive empathy. Those antisocial people who incidentally happen to have high cognitive empathy will be manipulative (which is something that requires cognitive empathy). So manipulativeness becomes known as common among antisocial people, but not because they have more cognitive empathy, but because those who have it are likely to be manipulative; and thus perhaps also more likely to be recognized as antisocial.


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