Foundations for Self-Awareness : An Exploration Through Autism (Volume 71, Number 2)

Developmental psychopathology holds promise for elucidating the structure of self-awareness.

Here we studied social emotions in matched groups of children and adolescents with and without autism.

Our aims were to determine whether there are potentially dissociable aspects of self-awareness, and to reconsider how the qualities of young children's engagement with other persons influences the development of their sense of self.