01896nas a2200241 4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653003000118653003000148653002200178653003400200100001800234700001400252700001400266700001300280700001400293245011300307300001200420490000700432520118700439022001401626020001401640 2006 d c07/2006bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aUnderstanding of emotions10acommunicative competences10aAsperger Syndrome10aObsessive Compulsive Disorder1 aJ. A. Huertas1 aD. Valdez1 aA. Ardura1 aC. Nieto1 aD. Brugos00aEvaluation of subtle markers of mentalistic inferences and subtle communicative skills in people with differ a365-3770 v123 aIn this research the emotional and pragmatic competences of people with different clinical disorders are studied. Our goal were to build a set of tests for the detection of subtle markers of mentalistic inferences and subtle pragmatic skills in persons with normal development, persons with AS and persons with OCD. A repeated measures 3x5 ANOVA was conducted. Significantly differences were found so in the main factors as in the interaction. For the factor kind of population significantly differences were found in the whole set of tests; people with normal development showed the best scores, people with OCD scored significantly lower and people with AS had the significantly lowest scores in the tests. The factorial analysis demonstrated a main factor which explains 61% of the variance. This reveals that all the tests evaluate the same restricted group of issues. The main findings were that the set of tests may contribute to the differential diagnosis in this competences of understanding of emotions, affects and intentions, showing a particular cognitive profile in people with AS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract) a1134-7937 a2174-0437