Decision-making under conditions of explicit risk and uncertainty in autistic and typically developing adolescents and young adults.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence has been characterized as a period of risky and possibly suboptimal decision-making, yet the development of decision-making in autistic adolescents is not well understood. To investigate decision-making in autism, we evaluated performance on 2 computerized tasks capturing decision-making under explicit risk and uncertainty in autistic and non-autistic adolescents/young adults ages 12-22 years. Participants completed the Game of Dice Task (32 IQ-matched participant pairs) to assess decision-making under explicit risk and the modified Iowa Gambling Task (35 IQ-matched pairs) to assess decision-making under uncertainty. Autistic participants overall made riskier decisions than non-autistic participants on the Game of Dice Task, and the odds of making riskier decisions varied by ag

SUBMITTER: Krug MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484483 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature