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Brief Report: Young Children with Autism Can Generate Intent-Based Moral Judgments

Auteurs: Francesco Margoni, Giulia Guglielmetti, Luca Surian

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 12/2019

Abstract

Past research suggested that, due to difficulties in mentalistic reasoning, individuals with autism tend to base their moral judgments on the outcome of agents’ actions rather than on agents’ intentions. In a novel task, aimed at reducing the processing demands required to represent intentions and generate a judgment, autistic children were presented with agents that accidentally harmed or attempted but failed to harm others and were asked to judge those agents. Most of the times, children blamed the character who attempted to harm and exculpated the accidental wrongdoer, suggesting that they generated intent-based moral judgments. These findings suggest that processing limitations rather than lack of conceptual competence explain the poor performance reported in previous research on moral judgment in autism.

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Titel: Brief Report: Young Children with Autism Can Generate Intent-Based Moral Judgments
Auteurs: Francesco Margoni
Giulia Guglielmetti
Luca Surian
Publicatiedatum: 05-09-2019
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 12/2019
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04212-9

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