Theory of Mind and Moral Decision-Making in the Context of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ringshaw, Jessica E; Hamilton, Katie; Malcolm‐Smith, Susan

doi:10.1007/s10803-021-05055-z

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“…In contrast, some research found reduced prosocial behavior in ASD. Ringshaw and colleagues (Ringshaw et al, 2022) found that boys with ASD between 6 and 12 years of age were less prosocial in a moral decision‐making task than matched neurotypical boys. Moreover, Lin and colleagues (Lin et al, 2012) found high‐functioning ASD adults to donate significantly less to non‐autism‐related social charities than neurotypical adults.…”

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Using simple economic games to assess social orienting and prosocial behavior in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Hase

Haynes²,

Hasler

2023

Autism Research

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Deficits in socio‐emotional reciprocity, in prosocial behavior and in developing social relationships are diagnostic criteria of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), usually assessed by self‐report or observation. Simple social experiments developed by behavioral economists allow for quantification of ASD‐related social behavior. In this study, we used such experiments to compare social‐economic decision‐making between ASD adolescents and neurotypical controls. Precisely, we analyzed social orienting and prosocial behavior in 17 adolescents with ASD (Asperger syndrome) and 24 matched neurotypical adolescents. We used a two‐condition distribution game (possibility of punishment by fellow player versus no such possibility) and an impunity game to examine social orienting (distribution game) and prosocial behavior (both games). Participants with ASD exhibited less social orienting in the distribution game (p = 0.03, d = −0.61). In addition, there was a trend for ASD participants to behave in a more prosocial way than neurotypical participants in the impunity game (p = 0.08, d = 0.60), which was not the case in the no‐punishment condition of the distribution game (p = 0.35, r = 0.17). These results demonstrate the potential of simple economic games to capture reduced social orienting in ASD. The unexpected finding of more prosocial behavior in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder than in neurotypical controls adds to the complexity of previously published results. We recommend meta‐analytic efforts to determine average effect sizes across studies and elucidate the conditions for prosocial behavior in ASD to occur.

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Using simple economic games to assess social orienting and prosocial behavior in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Hase

Haynes²,

Hasler

2023

Autism Research

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“…In this task, participants were required to respond to verbal instructions of increasing length and grammatical complexity by pointing to certain stimuli. Importantly, the NEPSY-II has been translated into several languages and used with success in resource-limited countries including South Africa (Mulenga et al 2010;Ringshaw et al 2022).…”

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Determining the neurocognitive profile of children with tuberous sclerosis complex within the Western Cape region of South Africa

Berghoff

Wilmshurst

Page

et al. 2023

J intellect Disabil Res

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Background Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a multisystem genetic disorder associated with a wide spectrum of cognitive impairments that can often result in impaired academic, social and adaptive functioning. However, studies investigating TSC have found it difficult to determine whether TSC is associated with a distinct cognitive phenotype and more specifically which aspects of functioning are impaired. Furthermore, children with TSC living in low‐income and middle‐income countries, like South Africa, experience additional burdens due to low socio‐economic status, high mortality rates and poor access to health care and education. Hence, the clinical population of South Africa may vary considerably from those populations from high‐income countries discussed in the literature. Methods A comprehensive neuropsychological battery composed of internationally recognised measures examining attention, working memory, language comprehension, learning and memory, areas of executive function and general intellectual functioning was administered to 17 children clinically diagnosed with TSC. Results The exploration of descriptive data indicated generalised cognitive difficulties in most cognitive domains, aside from memory. With only two participants performing in the average to above‐average ranges, the rest of the sample showed poor verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, processing speed, disinhibition, and problems with spatial planning, problem solving, frustration tolerance, set shifting and maintaining a set of rules. Furthermore, correlational findings indicated several associations between socio‐demographic and cognitive variables. Conclusions Importantly, this is the first study to comprehensively examine multiple domains of neurocognitive functioning in a low‐resource setting sample of children with TSC. Current study findings showed that children with TSC have generalised impairments across several cognitive domains, rather than domain‐specific impairments. Therefore, although examining individual aspects of cognition, such as those found in previous literature, is important, this approach is limiting. With a comprehensive assessment, including understanding the associations between domains, appropriate and directed support can be provided to ensure all aspects of development are addressed and considered.

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Behavioral Research Methods in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Yang,

Merrill,

Conde

2024

Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience

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Theory of Mind and Moral Decision-Making in the Context of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Cited by 5 publications

References 108 publications

Using simple economic games to assess social orienting and prosocial behavior in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Using simple economic games to assess social orienting and prosocial behavior in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Determining the neurocognitive profile of children with tuberous sclerosis complex within the Western Cape region of South Africa

Behavioral Research Methods in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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