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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025

Paranoia and Data-Gathering Biases in Autism.

Kristina Bennert, Mark Brosnan, Amy Canning, Ged Roberts, Ailsa Russell

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kristina BennertCentre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
Mark BrosnanCentre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. pssmjb@bath.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0683-1492
Amy CanningFromeside Secure Services, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust, Bristol, UK.
Ged RobertsSpecialist Nurse, Bristol Autism Spectrum Service, Bristol, UK.
Ailsa RussellCentre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
University of Bath · GBAt Bristol · GBAvon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous research has identified contradictory patterns in autism upon probabilistic reasoning tasks, and high levels of self-report paranoia symptoms have also been reported. To explore this relationship, the present study assessed 64 non-autistic and 39 autistic adults on two variants of a probabilistic reasoning task which examined the amount of evidence required before making a decision and 'jumping to conclusions' (a neutral beads task and an emotionally-salient words variant). The autism group was found to require significantly more evidence before making a decision and to have significantly less jumping to conclusions than the non-autistic group. For those with relatively low levels of paranoia, the emotionally-salient variant impacted on the non-autistic group, but not the autism group.

Indexed as

Autistic DisorderDecision MakingParanoid DisordersAdolescentAdultEmotionsFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultAutismParanoiaReasoning and decision making

Identifiers

PMID38421502
PMCPMC11933180
OpenAlexW4392283713

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