Fig. 1
Comparison of cognitive empathy, affective empathy and emotional reactivity between TD controls and autistic individuals. (A) shows the cognitive (left) and affective (right) empathy beta weights relating normative (i.e., acquired from an independent sample) self-ratings in emotional situations with imagining how another person (i.e., socially close: dark blue, socially distant: light blue) would feel experiencing the same situation and how the participants feel when imagining another person in this situation, respectively. The bar plot in (B) shows the difference in emotional reactivity (i.e., relating normative self-ratings to participant’s self-rating) between TD controls (red) and autistic individuals (light pink). Error bars indicate the mean standard error. Jitter represents the single datapoints per participant. ASD autism spectrum disorder, TD typically developed, *p < .05, ***p < .001.
