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affiliative drive: could this be disturbed in childhood autism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2005

ralf-peter behrendt
Affiliation:
department of psychological medicine for the elderly, barwise, walton hospital, chesterfield, s40 3th, united kingdomrp.behrendt@btinternet.com

Abstract

affect mirroring allows infants to distinguish emotional and intentional states of significant others, which – in the pursuit of their own drive satisfaction, including satisfaction of the affiliative drive – become important contextual stimuli predictive of reward. learning to perceive and manipulate others' attitudes toward oneself in pursuit of affiliative reward may be an important step in social development that is impaired in autism.

Type
open peer commentary
Copyright
© 2005 cambridge university press

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