ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2013
The role of causal and intentional judgments in moral reasoning in individuals with high functioning autism.
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- How the brain judges harm: functional networks among intentional and accidental moral evaluation.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
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- Are You a Closet Dualist? Evidence From Brief Implicit Association Task.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Means to an end: teleological bias in moral reasoning.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Roles of empathy in altruistic cooperation in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder.Heliyon · 2024Article
- An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Disgust Processing and Potential Relationships with Behaviors in Autism.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- The illusion of the mind-body divide is attenuated in males.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emotional descriptions increase accidental harm punishment and its cortico-limbic signatures during moral judgment in autism.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social and executive functioning in individuals with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability: The case-control study protocol of the CNeSA study.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Autism attenuates the perception of the mind-body divide.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Generalization Task for Developing Social Problem-Solving Skills among Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Sense of agency predicts severity of moral judgments.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Reasoning supports forgiving accidental harms.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Social Decision Making in Autistic Adolescents: The Role of Theory of Mind, Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Brief Report: Young Children with Autism Can Generate Intent-Based Moral Judgments.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Intuitive Moral Reasoning in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Matter of Social Schemas?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
In the present study, we investigated the ability to assign moral responsibility and punishment in adults with high functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome (HFA/AS), using non-verbal cartoons depicting an aggression, an accidental harm or a mere coincidence. Participants were asked to evaluate the agent's causal and intentional roles, his responsibility and the punishment he deserves for his action. Adults with HFA/AS did not differ in judgments of suffering and causality from adults with typical development. However, subtle difficulties with judgments of intentional action and moral judgments were observed in participants with HFA/AS. These results are discussed in the light of emerging studies that deal with integrity of moral reasoning in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
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