“…Individuals with AS and a healthy control group were invited to complete online questionnaires assessing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism (PhoPhiKat; , the frequency and severity of having been ridiculed in the past (Ridicule-Experience Questionnaire, REQ) and a questionnaire that assesses domains connected with the autism spectrum such as social and communication skills, imagination, and attention switching/tolerance of change (AQ-k, the German short version, Freitag et al 2007, of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, AQ, Baron-Cohen et al 2001). Individuals with AS were recruited via several ways, as described in the ''Procedure'' section, and all were diagnosed by a psychotherapist (ICD-10: F84.5).…”