Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28474227›Full record

ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

Brief Report: Intuitive and Reflective Reasoning in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Mark Brosnan, Chris Ashwin, Marcus Lewton

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Reduced Susceptibility to the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Autistic Employees.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Paranoia and Data-Gathering Biases in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Autistic adults' inclination to lie in everyday situations.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Thinking, fast and slow on the autism spectrum.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism-related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022
    Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" in Autistic Adults is Modulated by Valence and Difficulty: An InFoR Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021
    Article
  20. Impact of past experiences on decision-making in autism spectrum disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mark BrosnanDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. M.J.Brosnan@Bath.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0683-1492
Chris AshwinDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
Marcus LewtonDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dual Process Theory has recently been applied to Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to suggest that reasoning by people with ASD and people with higher levels of ASD-like traits can be characterised by reduced intuitive and greater reflective processing. 26 adolescents and adults with ASD and 22 adolescent and adult controls completed an assessment of ASD-like traits, the cognitive reflections test (CRT) to measure intuitive and reflective reasoning and an index of general cognitive ability. The ASD group produced less intuitive responses, and the degree of ASD-like traits showed a negative correlation with intuitive responses and positive correlation with reflective responses on the CRT. Together, these results are consistent with ASD being associated with reduced intuitive reasoning and greater deductive reasoning.

Indexed as

IntuitionProblem SolvingAdolescentAdultAutism Spectrum DisorderCase-Control StudiesHumansMaleAutismDual process theoryIntuitionReasoningReflection

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.