Underestimating the emotion perception capacities of people with mental retardation

摘要: Many studies have reported that children and adults with cultural-familial retardation have problems tasks involving the recognition of emotions. On basis these findings Rojahn, Rabold & Schneider (1995) proposed people mental suffer from a specific deficit in emotion perception. This paper proposes case for emotion specificity is not as compelling Rojahn et al propose presents alternative conceptual models may serve useful aids when designing appraising future studies, in thinking about clinical interventions this area.