Thiébaut, FI;
White, SJ;
Walsh, A;
Klargaard, SK;
Wu, HC;
Rees, G;
Burgess, PW;
(2016)
Does Faux Pas Detection in Adult Autism Reflect Differences in Social Cognition or Decision-Making Abilities?
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
, 46
(1)
pp. 103-112.
10.1007/s10803-015-2551-1.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Does Faux Pas Detection in Adult Autism Reflect Differences in Social Cognition or Decision-Making Abilities? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10803-015-2551-1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2551-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Autism spectrum disorder, Faux pas, Social cognition, Decision making, Open-ended, Compensatory strategy, Executive function |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473293 |
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