“…In studies directly comparing adults with ASD and those with schizophrenia, not only do both groups demonstrate poorer performance in social skills [Morrison et al, ], social functioning [APA, ], and social cognitive performance [Sasson et al, ] relative to TD controls, but they also show similar underactivation in brain regions associated with social cognition [Couture et al, ; Crespi, Stead, & Elliot, ; Pinkham, Hopfinger, Pelphrey, Piven, & Penn, ; Sullivan et al, ]. Other studies, however, show distinctions in aspects of social cognition, such as greater impairments in social perception in ASD [e.g., face processing; Pilowsky, Yirmiya, Arbelle, & Mozes, ; Sasson et al, ; Sasson, Pinkham, Weittenhiller, Faso, & Simpson, ] but fewer impairments in higher‐order social appraisal [e.g., theory of mind and attributional biases Pinkham et al, ; Sasson et al, ].…”