A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that autistic people are emotionally stunted, finding that, in fact, people with autism experience complex emotions. It’s hoped these findings will ...

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Recent studies show we may need to revise widely ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

Psychotherapy offers many pathways to growth, and one key benefit is learning to identify, understand, and express emotions. Emotions drive our thoughts, behaviors, and relationships, yet many people ...

Dawn R. Mitchell White is affiliated with the University of South Florida as a doctoral student in Music Education. Many children with autism struggle to find the words to express how they feel. But ...