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Published on: October 3, 2018
Brief report: do individuals with autism spectrum disorder think they know their own minds?
Peter Mitchell1, Kelly O'Keefe
1School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. peter.mitchell@nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract:
How much do individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) think they know about their inner states? To find out, we asked 24 participants with ASD and 24 non-clinical participants to rate how well they knew about six topics of self knowledge; they also rated how well a comparison individual knew these things about them. Participants with ASD differed from the non-clinical participants in assigning about the same amount of knowledge to the comparison individual as to themselves. Non-clinical participants, in contrast, assigned relatively more knowledge to themselves. The findings are consistent with the possibility that individuals with ASD do not appreciate the value of having first-person privileged access to their own inner states.
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