These findings add to the understanding of health-promoting effects of dispositional optimism by addressing relationships of optimism and pessimism with cardiovascular concomitants of anger and sadness that are thought to contribute to heart disease.
Social communication skills such as joint attention (JA), requesting, and social referencing (SR) are deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Shifting gaze is a common response across these skills. In many studies, children respond variably to intervention, resulting in modifications to planned intervention procedures. In this study, we attempted to replicate the procedures of Krstovska-Guerrero and Jones (
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