ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
Brief Report: Reduced Optimism Bias in Self-Referential Belief Updating in High-Functioning Autism.
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- An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Cognitive biases as an adaptive strategy in autism and schizophrenia spectrum: the compensation perspective on neurodiversity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Asymmetrical Update of Beliefs About Future Outcomes is Driven by Outcome Valence and Social Group Membership.International review of social psychology · 2023Article
- Integration of Facial Expression and Gaze Direction in Individuals with a High Level of Autistic Traits.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- No Evidence for the Involvement of Cognitive Immunisation in Updating Beliefs About the Self in Three Non-Clinical Samples.Cognitive therapy and research · 2022Article
- Optimistic amnesia: how online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Influence of vmPFC on dmPFC Predicts Valence-Guided Belief Formation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Valence-Dependent Belief Updating: Computational Validation.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated irrational asymmetry in belief updating: people tend to take into account good news and neglect bad news. Contradicting formal learning principles, belief updates were on average larger after better-than-expected information than after worse-than-expected information. In the present study, typically developing subjects demonstrated this optimism bias in self-referential judgments. In contrast, adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were significantly less biased when updating self-referential beliefs (each group n = 21, matched for age, gender and IQ). These findings indicate a weaker influence of self-enhancing motives on prospective judgments in ASD. Reduced susceptibility to emotional and motivational biases in reasoning in ASD could elucidate impairments of social cognition, but may also confer important cognitive benefits.
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