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  • Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Restricted and repetitive behaviors are core diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
  • Prior gambling studies suggest individuals with ASD maintain response patterns irrespective of potential outcome magnitudes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate response consistency in decision-making among adults with ASD using a novel gambling task.
  • To compare decision-making strategies between adults with ASD and typically developed (TD) controls.

Main Methods:

  • A gambling task was designed to measure response consistency across varying expected gains and losses.
  • 33 adults with ASD and 47 age- and IQ-matched TD controls participated.
  • Participants made choices between risky gambles and safe options.

Main Results:

  • ASD and TD groups showed similar overall risk-taking behavior.
  • ASD participants exhibited significantly higher trial-to-trial choice consistency.
  • A greater proportion of ASD participants used invariant response strategies (always risky or always safe).
  • Decision times differed initially but normalized by the end of the task for the ASD group.

Conclusions:

  • The tendency for repetitive behavior in ASD is evident even in high-level decision-making.
  • Findings highlight the need to consider response consistency when interpreting decision-making tasks in ASD research.
  • This repetitive pattern in decision-making warrants further understanding for accurate assessment in ASD.