Jennifer Murphy is a Ph.D. student in psychological sciences at King’s College London.
Jennifer Murphy
Graduate student
King’s College London
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People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy
The notion that people with autism lack empathy and cannot recognize other people’s feelings is wrong.
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12 July 2016 | 6 min read
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