Conceptualization of Romantic Love Among Adults with Down’s Syndrome

We synthesize the main findings from two studies that examined moral judgement abilities in people with autism, and in people with Down syndrome. In both studies, the way these people mentally combine information about the intent of a harmful act and the severity of its consequences when attributing blame to an offender was compared with that of typically developing controls. Adolescents and adults with autism or with Down syndrome were, practically to the same extent as controls, able to take into account both information pieces for attributing blame. It would be an exaggeration to imply that adolescents and adults with either autism or Down syndrome are severely immature in moral judgement based on the fact that they are usually not able to explain or justify their judgements with sophisticated philosophical arguments. By contrast, children with autism blame attribution appeared to be essentially based on consequence information. The finding that adolescents and adults with autism or Down syndrome are able to make moral judgements in a way that is not very different from adolescents and adults of the same age could influence the way these people are perceived, cared for, and attributed basic rights. KeywordsMoral Judgments, Autism, Down Syndrome, Offender. RESUMENSintetizamos las principales conclusiones de dos estudios que examinaron la capacidad de juicio moral en personas con autismo y en personas con síndrome de Down. En ambos estudios, la forma en que estas personas combinan mentalmente la información acerca de la intención que puede haber en un acto perjudicial y la gravedad de sus consecuencias cuando se atribuye la culpa a un delincuente, se comparó con la de un grupo control (con desarrollo normal). Adolescentes y adultos con autismo o con síndrome de Down fueron, prácticamente de la misma medida que los del grupo control, capaces de tener en cuenta ambas piezas de información para atribuir la culpa. Sería una exageración asegurar que los adolescentes y los adultos, ya sea con autismo o síndrome de Down son severamente inmaduros en sus juicios morales basado en el hecho de que por lo general no son capaces de explicar o justificar sus juicios con argumentos filosóficos sofisticados. Por el contrario, los niños con autismo que realizaron atribución de culpa parecían basarse esencialmente en la información sobre la consecuencia. El hallazgo de que los adolescentes y adultos con autismo o síndrome de Down son capaces de hacer juicios morales de una manera que no es muy diferente

Section: Blame Attribution Among People With Down Syndrome and Peoplesupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Blame Attribution Among People With Developmental Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Blame Attribution Among People With Down Syndrome and Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

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Imputación de culpa entre personas con desorden del desarrollo

Morales¹,

Rogé²

2016

“…They found that, irrespective of their participants' gender and age, the love schema was conceived as a strictly compensatory schema: Passion was the most critical factor, followed by intimacy and commitment, and a decrease in one factor (e.g., intimacy) can be compensated for by an increase in another factor (e.g., commitment). These findings have been replicated on various samples (Morales et al, 2015, Vera Cruz, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 64%

Creating Relationships Using On-Line Dating Services: A Preliminary Mapping of French People’s Views

Gauché

Brard

2019

We explored people’s views regarding the kind of relationship that can be expected and created using such websites. In the current study, we used the same scenario technique. Vignettes depicting the kind of relationship an individual expected to find through the use of an online dating service were created by orthogonal combination of five factors: (a) passion; that is, the level of personal, affective involvement in the relationship, (b) intimacy; that is, the type of relationship desired (friendship vs. intimate/sexual), (c) commitment; that is, the expected duration of the relationship (short term vs. long term), (d) the user’s gender, and (e) the user’s age. Three contrasted positions were found. A minority of participants considered that creating a relationship using dating services was never very easy. A plurality of participants considered that creating either long-term romantic relationships or short-term, more “utilitarian” relationships was considerably easier than creating either short-term romantic relationships or long-term, more “utilitarian” relationships. Another plurality of participants considered that creating any relationship was quite possible. These participants disconnected the commonly admitted association between the duration of a relationship and level of emotional involvement. In other words, they considered that creating a passionate but short-lived relationship was not more difficult than creating any other kind of relationships.

“…In daily life, however, the combination of these three components is undoubtedly more a matter of degree than an all or none phenomenon. Studies conducted among West-Europeans, Central-Americans, and Southern Africans have shown that passion was, from people's perspective, the most important component of the love schema, followed by intimacy and then by commitment (Falconi & Mullet, 2003;Marston, Hecht, Manke, McDaniel & Reeder, 1998;Morales et al, 2015;Vera Cruz, 2015, 2017. They have also shown that adults with learning disabilities have the same love schema as typical adults, which is unsurprising since love is a fundamental human emotion, which is possibly not only human but common to many primates, at least as an affect such as attachment or connection.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing Mozambican and French People’s Conceptualization of Romantic Love

Cruz¹

2019

The study compared the way Mozambican and French people conceptualize romantic love. Two subsamples of 238 Mozambican adults and 250 French adults were presented with 27 cards containing vignettes (scenarios) that described the characteristics of someone’s relationship regarding degree of passion, the degree of intimacy, and degree of commitment. Participants assessed the intensity of romantic love experienced by the characters in the scenarios using a continuous scale. The way people from both cultures conceptualized romantic love was not entirely similar, but the differences were very subtle. The impact of each component on the judged intensity of love was similar. In both samples, passion and intimacy explained most of the variance. The algebraic structure of the judgment rule was, however, different. Among French participants, the findings were consistent with an equal-weight averaging rule as suggested by previous authors. Among Mozambican participants, the patterns of rating were, however, consistent with a more complex judgment rule. In this rule, the impact of each factor depended on the level of the other factors: A differential weight averaging rule was proposed that can be written Love = wic Passion + w’pc Intimacy + w”pi Commitment / wic + w’pc + w”pi