Comprehension of Affect in Context in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

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Abstract
Fifteen children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) (mean age 12.7 years) were compared to mental age matched normal children on manning a context to its appropriate emotion, PDD children were slightly but significantly impaired on this task relative to a non‐social task equated for difficulty. Both matching tasks were highly correlated with cognitive variables; the Social matching task alone was correlated with social skill level, and neither task was correlated with ratings of social deviance. Results are discussed in terms of the demands of social cognitive tasks, the magnitude of social cognitive findings, control group (selection and individual difference).

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