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01-11-2011 | Original Paper

Judgments of Cause and Blame: Sensitivity to Intentionality in Asperger’s Syndrome

Auteurs: Shelley Channon, David Lagnado, Sian Fitzpatrick, Helena Drury, Isabelle Taylor

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 11/2011

Abstract

Sensitivity to intentionality in people with Asperger’s syndrome (AS) and matched controls was investigated using two scenario-based tasks. The first compared intentional and unintentional human actions and physical events leading to the same negative outcomes. The second compared intentional actions that varied in their subjective and objective likelihood of bringing about a negative outcome. Whilst adults with AS did not differ from controls in their judgments of causality, or in their blame judgments in relation to non-mentalistic factors, they showed heightened sensitivity to mentalistic considerations in their attributions of blame. They made greater differentiation than controls between intentional and unintentional actions, and also between actions that the protagonists believed to be likely versus unlikely to lead to negative consequences.

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Titel: Judgments of Cause and Blame: Sensitivity to Intentionality in Asperger’s Syndrome
Auteurs: Shelley Channon
David Lagnado
Sian Fitzpatrick
Helena Drury
Isabelle Taylor
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2011
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 11/2011
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-011-1180-6

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