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Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Jacqueline Hill, Yogini Raste and Ian Plumb, (2001) The ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test Revised Version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry, (2001), 42, 241-252.

Abstract.

In 1997 in this Journal we published the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test, as a measure of adult ‘mentalising’. Whilst that test succeeded in discriminating a group of adults with Asperger Syndrome (AS) or High-Functioning Autism (HFA) from controls, it suffered from several psychometric problems. In this paper these limitations are rectified, by revising the test. The revised Eyes Test was administered to a group of adults with AS or HFA (n = 15) and again discriminated these from a large number of normal controls (n = 239) drawn from different samples. In both the clinical and control groups the Eyes Test was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ) a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence. The Revised Eyes Test has improved the power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity.

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