ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Motivating Moral Behavior: Helping, Sharing, and Comforting in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Social and Emotional Competencies of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Intellectual Disability.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Differences in Prosocial Behaviors of Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum and Their Non-autistic Peers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Same behavior, different perspectives: direct reciprocity differences between children with autism and children with typical development.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Identifying Core Joint Attention Behaviors and Exploring Pathways to Autistic Traits in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Network Analysis Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Are a Child's Autistic Traits, Behavioural Difficulties, Prosocial Behaviour and Temperament Predictors of Parental Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction? A Study on Parents of Autistic and Neurotypical Children Aged 7-11 Years.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- How and When Perpetrators Reflect on and Respond to Their Workplace Ostracism Behavior: A Moral Cleansing Lens.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Beliefs about the factors that motivate prosocial sentiments among people in the privileged class of Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Autism does not Dictate Children's Lack of Sharing in a Prosocial Choice Test.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Prosocial attention in children with and without autism spectrum disorder: Dissociation between anticipatory gaze and internal arousal.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- Brief Report: Young Children with Autism Can Generate Intent-Based Moral Judgments.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
This exploratory study examined the role of social-cognitive development in the production of moral behavior. Specifically, we explored the propensity of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to engage in helping, sharing, and comforting acts, addressing two specific questions: (1) Compared to their typically developing (TD) peers, how do young children with ASD perform on three prosocial tasks that require the recognition of different kinds of need (instrumental, material, and emotional), and (2) are children with ASD adept at distinguishing situations in which an adult needs assistance from perceptually similar situations in which the need is absent? Children with ASD demonstrated low levels of helping and sharing but provided comfort at levels consistent with their TD peers. Children with ASD also tended to differentiate situations where a need was present from situations in which it was absent. Together, these results provided an initial demonstration that young children with ASD have the ability to take another's perspective and represent their internal need states. However, when the cost of engaging in prosocial behavior is high (e.g., helping and sharing), children with ASD may be less inclined to engage in the behavior, suggesting that both the capacity to recognize another's need
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