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Exploring The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition, Autistic Traits, And Alexithymia Traits In College Students, Luis E. Sanchez
Exploring The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition, Autistic Traits, And Alexithymia Traits In College Students, Luis E. Sanchez
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Accurately recognizing and interpreting the emotions of others face, voice, and body language is a crucial component for successfully building good social skills with peers. This study explores emotional recognition in individuals with autistic traits, measured by the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and individuals with alexithymia traits, measured by Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20). Individuals are presented with various complex emotions using Genova Emotion Recognition Short version (GERT-S). This present study examines the relationship between AQ and TAS-20 and determine if there is any interaction between them for emotional recognition. The researcher found that there was a negative correlation between autistic …