Judgment of blame in teenagers with Asperger's syndrome

Salvano-Pardieu, Véronique; Blanc, R.; Combalbert, Nicolas; Pierratte, Aurélia; Manktelow, Ken; Maintier, Christine; Lepeltier, Sandra; Gimenes, Guillaume; Barthélémy, Catherine; Fontaine, Roger

doi:10.1080/13546783.2015.1127288

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“…However, Steele et al ( 2003 ) found that children with ASD aged 4–14 failed to distinguish between intentional and accidental bad acts (e.g., failing to come to a planned meeting as a result of canceling the plan without telling or as a result of the bus breaking). Studies on ASD adults also showed that they judge an accidental harm both more punishable and more intentional compared to TD adults, suggesting a partial impairment in the ability to rely on intentions (Buon et al, 2013 ; see also Rogé and Mullet, 2011 ; Zalla and Leboyer, 2011 ; Salvano-Pardieu et al, 2015 ). Nevertheless, ASD school-aged children distinguish between a distressed victim and an individual in distress that however is not a victim (Leslie et al, 2006 ).…”

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Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Margoni

Surian

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Section: The Relative Weight Of Intention and Outcome In The Judgmentmentioning

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Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Margoni

Surian

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…Although autistics do not seem to be impaired in evaluating intentional third-party harm-doings, they exhibit enduring deficits on more complex intent-based moral judgment tasks that require integration of information about mental states of the agents with the information about outcomes of these acts. In particular, they judge accidental harms more harshly, arguably due to their inability to form a robust representation of agent’s benign intentions due to ToM deficits 13 that can be weighted up against a strong negative emotional response stemming from the victim suffering 14 15 16 17 18 (but see Baez et al 19 ). Thus, this work is consistent with the profile of ASD 20 featuring preserved psychophysiological/emotional response to others’ affective states (affective empathy) but reduced cognitive understanding about others’ internal states (ToM).…”

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Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism

Patil

Melsbach

Hennig-Fast

et al. 2016

Sci Rep

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This study investigated hypothetical moral choices in adults with high-functioning autism and the role of empathy and alexithymia in such choices. We used a highly emotionally salient moral dilemma task to investigate autistics’ hypothetical moral evaluations about personally carrying out harmful utilitarian behaviours aimed at maximizing welfare. Results showed that they exhibited a normal pattern of moral judgments despite the deficits in social cognition and emotional processing. Further analyses revealed that this was due to mutually conflicting biases associated with autistic and alexithymic traits after accounting for shared variance: (a) autistic traits were associated with reduced utilitarian bias due to elevated personal distress of demanding social situations, while (b) alexithymic traits were associated with increased utilitarian bias on account of reduced empathic concern for the victim. Additionally, autistics relied on their non-verbal reasoning skills to rigidly abide by harm-norms. Thus, utilitarian moral judgments in autism were spared due to opposite influences of autistic and alexithymic traits and compensatory intellectual strategies. These findings demonstrate the importance of empathy and alexithymia in autistic moral cognition and have methodological implications for studying moral judgments in several other clinical populations.

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“…Although autistics do not seem to be impaired in evaluating intentional third-party harm-doings, they exhibit enduring deficits on more complex intent-based moral judgment tasks that require integration of information about mental states of the agents with the information about outcomes of these acts. In particular, they judge accidental harms more harshly, arguably due to their inability to form a robust representation of agent's benign intentions due to ToM deficits 13 that can be weighted up against a strong negative emotional response stemming from the victim suffering [14][15][16][17][18] (but see Baez et al 19 ). Thus, this work is consistent with the profile of ASD 20 featuring preserved psychophysiological/emotional response to others' affective states (affective empathy) but reduced cognitive understanding about others' internal states (ToM).…”

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Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism

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Melsbach²,

Hennig-Fast³

et al. 2017

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This study investigated hypothetical moral choices in adults with high-functioning autism and the role of empathy and alexithymia in such choices. We used a highly emotionally salient moral dilemma task to investigate autistics' hypothetical moral evaluations about personally carrying out harmful utilitarian behaviours aimed at maximizing welfare. Results showed that they exhibited a normal pattern of moral judgments despite the deficits in social cognition and emotional processing. Further analyses revealed that this was due to mutually conflicting biases associated with autistic and alexithymic traits after accounting for shared variance: (a) autistic traits were associated with reduced utilitarian bias due to elevated personal distress of demanding social situations, while (b) alexithymic traits were associated with increased utilitarian bias on account of reduced empathic concern for the victim. Additionally, autistics relied on their non-verbal reasoning skills to rigidly abide by harm-norms. Thus, utilitarian moral judgments in autism were spared due to opposite influences of autistic and alexithymic traits and compensatory intellectual strategies. These findings demonstrate the importance of empathy and alexithymia in autistic moral cognition and have methodological implications for studying moral judgments in several other clinical populations.

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Judgment of blame in teenagers with Asperger's syndrome

Cited by 21 publications

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Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism

Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism

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