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Teasing, Ridiculing and the Relation to the Fear of Being Laughed at in Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome

Published inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 41, no. 4, p. 475-483
Publication date2011
Abstract

The present paper investigated the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in relation to recalled experiences of having been laughed at in the past in individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS). About 45% of the individuals with AS (N = 40), but only 6% of the controls (N = 83) had at least a slight form of gelotophobia, which is the highest percentage ever found in the literature. Gelotophobia correlated with the frequency and severity of remembered teasing and mocking situations in the past. This indicates that gelotophobia is an important issue in individuals with AS. Furthermore, individuals with AS are less able to laugh at themselves (gelotophilia), but enjoy laughing at others (katagelasticism, a more hostile form of humor) to the same extent as controls do.

Keywords
  • Asperger's syndrome
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Gelotophobia
  • Fear of being laughed at
  • Teasing
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SAMSON, Andrea Christiane, HUBER, Oswald, RUCH, Willibald. Teasing, Ridiculing and the Relation to the Fear of Being Laughed at in Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011, vol. 41, n° 4, p. 475–483. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1071-2
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