TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kuzmanovic, Bojana
AU  - Rigoux, Lionel
AU  - Vogeley, Kai
TI  - Brief Report: Reduced Optimism Bias in Self-Referential Belief Updating in High-Functioning Autism
JO  - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
VL  - 49
IS  - 7
SN  - 1573-3432
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
M1  - FZJ-2017-04990
SP  - 2990-2998
PY  - 2019
AB  - Previous research has demonstrated irrational asymmetry in belief updating: people tend to take into account good news and neglect bad news. Contradicting formal learning principles, belief updates were on average larger after better-than-expected information than after worse-than-expected information. In the present study, typically developing subjects demonstrated this optimism bias in self-referential judgments. In contrast, adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were significantly less biased when updating self-referential beliefs (each group n = 21, matched for age, gender and IQ). These findings indicate a weaker influence of self-enhancing motives on prospective judgments in ASD. Reduced susceptibility to emotional and motivational biases in reasoning in ASD could elucidate impairments of social cognition, but may also confer important cognitive benefits.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:27757736
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000474414900028
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s10803-016-2940-0
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/835122
ER  -