Table 2.
Behavioral results.
| Contrast | Overall (N = 17) | F-CG (N = 8) | F-ASD (N = 9) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | p | t(7) | p | t(8) | p | |
| Empathy for physical pain | ||||||
| PP vs. NP | 513.08 | <.001 | 23.07 | <.001 | 12.53 | <.001 |
| Empathy for social pain | ||||||
| NS vs. SKS | 648.30 | <.001 | 20.17 | <.001 | 17.08 | <.001 |
| NS vs. NKS | 44.83 | <.001 | 2.59 | .036 | 5.63 | <.001 |
| SKS vs. NKS | 53.33 | <.001 | 7.93 | <.001 | 3.03 | .016 |
Results of the contrasts between conditions following the overall ANOVAs across groups and separate t-tests within each of the experimental groups for the empathy for physical pain task and empathy for social pain task. F-CG, non-clinical control group; F-ASD, autism spectrum disorder group; PP, physical pain situations; NP, no-pain, neutral control stimuli; NS, neutral control situations; SKS, shared knowledge situations (see Methods for description); NKS, non-shared knowledge situations; EPP degrees of freedom: F(1,16); ESP degrees of freedom: F(1,15).