Autistic people differ from non-autistic people subjectively, but not objectively in their reasoning.

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Autistic people often experience challenges in social contexts, and when decisions need to be made quickly. There is evidence showing that autistic people have a tendency for greater deliberation and lower intuition, compared to non-autistic people. This has led to the researchers' proposal that autism is associated with an enhanced level of rationality. However, these theories have been mostly explored through the lens of either only non-social domain or only social domain. To address this gap, we recruited autistic adults and carefully matched them with non-autistic adults for comparison. We used a task representing both social and non-social interactions in a comparison structure and asked participants' moral judgements on scenarios' main characters. This was comple

SUBMITTER: Bastan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816476 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature