People With Autism Spectrum Conditions Make More Consistent Decisions.

ABSTRACT: People with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) show reduced sensitivity to contextual stimuli in many perceptual and cognitive tasks. We investigated whether this also applies to decision making by examining adult participants' choices between pairs of consumer products that were presented with a third, less desirable "decoy" option. Participants' preferences between the items in a given pair frequently switched when the third item in the set was changed, but this tendency was reduced among individuals with ASC, which indicated that their choices were more consistent and conventionally rational than those of control participants. A comparison of people who were drawn from the general population and who varied in their levels of autistic traits revealed a weaker version of the same effect. Th

SUBMITTER: Farmer GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5548251 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature