Title |
Does Faux Pas Detection in Adult Autism Reflect Differences in Social Cognition or Decision-Making Abilities?
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Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s10803-015-2551-1 |
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Authors |
Flora I. Thiébaut, Sarah J. White, Annabel Walsh, Solja K. Klargaard, Hsuan-Chen Wu, Geraint Rees, Paul W. Burgess |
Abstract |
43 typically-developed adults and 35 adults with ASD performed a cartoon faux pas test. Adults with ASD apparently over-detected faux pas despite good comprehension abilities, and were generally slower at responding. Signal detection analysis demonstrated that the ASD participants had significantly greater difficulty detecting whether a cartoon depicted a faux pas and showed a liberal response bias. Test item analysis demonstrated that the ASD group were not in agreement with a reference control group (n = 69) about which non-faux pas items were most difficult. These results suggest that the participants with ASD had a primary problem with faux pas detection, but that there is another factor at work, possibly compensatory, that relates to their choice of a liberal response criterion. |
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