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Individual differences, social attention, and the history of the social motivation hypotheses of autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2019

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Peter C. Mundy*
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School of Education and the Mind Institute, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. pcmundy@ucdavis.eduhttp://ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/ourteam/faculty/mundy.html
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Abstract

The stereotype of people with autism as unresponsive or uninterested in other people was prominent in the 1980s. However, this view of autism has steadily given way to recognition of important individual differences in the social-emotional development of affected people and a more precise understanding of the possible role social motivation has in their early development.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e103
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