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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Behavior

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  • Social conformity, adjusting judgments to match others, is crucial for social interaction.
  • It's driven by normative (acceptance) and informational (accuracy) motives.
  • Understanding social conformity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is key to characterizing social behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if adults with ASD exhibit reduced social conformity compared to neurotypical (NT) adults.
  • To determine if any conformity differences depend on the type of social influence (normative vs. informational).

Main Methods:

  • Thirty adults with ASD and 30 NT adults participated.
  • A preference rating task assessed normative influence.
  • A dot-counting task with rewards assessed informational influence.

Main Results:

  • Adults with ASD showed similar conformity to NT adults in the normative task.
  • Adults with ASD displayed significantly reduced conformity in the informational task.
  • A subgroup of adults with ASD (n=9) showed no conformity in the informational task, impacting accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • Adults with ASD are generally as responsive to normative influence as NT adults.
  • However, adults with ASD appear less responsive to informational influence, particularly a subset with distinct responses.
  • Distinguishing influence types and considering individual differences is vital for understanding social behavior in ASD.