Brief Report: Reduced Optimism Bias in Self-Referential Belief Updating in High-Functioning Autism
| Autor: | Lionel Rigoux, Bojana Kuzmanovic, Kai Vogeley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Intelligence quotient
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Optimism bias Cognition medicine.disease Developmental psychology Neglect High-functioning autism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Social cognition Autism spectrum disorder Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Autism 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49:2990-2998 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 0162-3257 |
| Popis: | Previous research has demonstrated irrational asymmetry in belief updating: people tend to take into account good news and neglect bad news. Contradicting formal learning principles, belief updates were on average larger after better-than-expected information than after worse-than-expected information. In the present study, typically developing subjects demonstrated this optimism bias in self-referential judgments. In contrast, adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were significantly less biased when updating self-referential beliefs (each group n = 21, matched for age, gender and IQ). These findings indicate a weaker influence of self-enhancing motives on prospective judgments in ASD. Reduced susceptibility to emotional and motivational biases in reasoning in ASD could elucidate impairments of social cognition, but may also confer important cognitive benefits. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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