ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Perspective-taking abilities in the balance between autism tendencies and psychosis proneness.
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- The relationships between anxiety, psychotic-like experiences and autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Examining the diametric model of autistic and psychotic traits through temporal perception.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Autistic traits, psychosis proneness, and empathy in preadolescents: A network analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Schizotypal Traits in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Impact on Social, Emotional and Behavioral Functioning.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Paranoia and Data-Gathering Biases in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Hot and Cool Executive Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizotypal Traits.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Validation of the Hebrew version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences in a sample of Israeli Hebrew speakers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Autistic traits in psychotic disorders: prevalence, familial risk, and impact on social functioning.Psychological medicine · 2021Article
- A Unifying Theory for Autism: The Pathogenetic Triad as a Theoretical Framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Multivariate Neural Connectivity Patterns in Early Infancy Predict Later Autism Symptoms.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2021Article
- Does interference between self and other perspectives in theory of mind tasks reflect a common underlying process? Evidence from individual differences in theory of mind and inhibitory control.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Article
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- Social Cognition and Friendships in Adolescents With Autistic-Like Experiences and Psychotic-Like Experiences.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Genetic variations in the SNP rs850807 reflect a trade-off between autism and paranoia symptom expressions: a comment on CrespiBiology letters · 2018Article
- Diametric effects of autism tendencies and psychosis proneness on attention control irrespective of task demands.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- ASD and schizophrenia show distinct developmental profiles in common genetic overlap with population-based social communication difficulties.Molecular psychiatry · 2018Article
- Are Psychotic Experiences Related to Poorer Reflective Reasoning?Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Difficulties with the ability to appreciate the perspective of others (mentalizing) is central to both autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. While the disorders are diagnostically independent, they can co-occur in the same individual. The effect of such co-morbidity is hypothesized to worsen mentalizing abilities. The recent influential 'diametric brain theory', however, suggests that the disorders are etiologically and phenotypically diametrical, predicting opposing effects on one's mentalizing abilities. To test these contrasting hypotheses, we evaluated the effect of psychosis and autism tendencies on the perspective-taking (PT) abilities of 201 neurotypical adults, on the assumption that autism tendencies and psychosis proneness are heritable dimensions of normal variation. We show that while both autism tendencies and psychosis proneness induce PT errors, their interaction reduced these errors. Our study is, to our knowledge, the first to observe that co-occurring autistic and psychotic traits can exert opposing influences on performance, producing a normalizing effect possibly by way of their diametrical effects on socio-cognitive abilities. This advances the notion that some individuals may, to some extent, be buffered against developing either illness or present fewer symptoms owing to a balanced expression of autistic and psychosis liability.
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