Autism does not limit strategic thinking in the "beauty contest" game.

ABSTRACT: A popular hypothesis in developmental psychology is that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a specific impairment or developmental delay in their ability to reason about other people's mental processes, especially when this reasoning process is of a higher-order, recursive, or nested variety. One type of interpersonal interaction that involves this sort of complex reasoning about others' minds is an economic game, and because economic games have been extensively modeled in behavioral economics, they provide a unique testbed for a quantitative and precise analysis of cognitive functioning in ASD. This study specifically asked whether ASD is associated with strategic depth in the economic game known as The Beauty Contest, in which all players submit a number from 0 to 100,

SUBMITTER: Pantelis PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303671 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature