Does Faux Pas Detection in Adult Autism Reflect Differences in Social Cognition or Decision-Making Abilities?

Thiébaut, Flora I.; White, Sarah; Walsh, Annabel; Klargaard, Solja K.; Wu, Hsuan‐Chen; Rees, Geraint; Burgess, Paul W.

doi:10.1007/s10803-015-2551-1

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“…Poorer performance of ASD adults compared to NC on cognitive ToM, affective ToM and interpersonal understanding of social norms supports previous findings (Baron -Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al, 2001;Castelli et al, 2002;Golan et al, 2006;Murray et al, 2017;Thi ebaut et al, 2016;Zalla et al, 2009). Although the ESCoT showed good sensitivity on all subtests, the finding that ASD adults showed impaired intrapersonal understanding of social norm is somewhat in contrast to our prediction and previous findings of intact performance (Baez et al, 2012;Gleichgerrcht et al, 2013).…”

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“…Violating a social norm can be detrimental to existing relationships or opportunities to form social relationships. Inter-and intrapersonal understanding of social norms have been examined separately in ASD adults, showing mixed findings (Baez et al, 2012;Gleichgerrcht et al, 2013;Lehnhardt et al, 2011;Thi ebaut et al, 2016;Zalla et al, 2009). To our knowledge, there is currently no clinical test of inter-and intrapersonal understanding of social norms within the same test.…”

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Social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorders: Validation of the Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT)

Baksh

Abrahams

Bertlich

et al. 2020

The Clinical Neuropsychologist

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Objective: Many existing tests of social cognition are not appropriate for clinical use, due to their length, complexity or uncertainty in what they are assessing. The Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT) is a new test of social cognition that assesses affective and cognitive Theory of Mind as well as inter-and intrapersonal understanding of social norms using animated interactions. Method: To support the development of the ESCoT as a clinical tool, we derived cutoff scores from a neurotypical population (n ¼ 236) and sought to validate the ESCoT in a sample of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; n ¼ 19) adults and neurotypical controls (NC; n ¼ 38) matched on age and education. The ESCoT was administered alongside established tests and questionnaire measures of ASD, empathy, systemizing traits and intelligence. Results: Performance on the subtests of the ESCoT and ESCoT total scores correlated with performance on traditional tests, demonstrating convergent validity. ASD adults performed poorer on all measures of social cognition. Unlike the ESCoT, performance on the established tests was predicted by verbal comprehension abilities. Using a ROC curve analysis, we showed that the ESCoT was more effective than existing tests at differentiating ASD adults from NC. Furthermore, a total of 42.11% of ASD adults were impaired on the ESCoT compared to 0% of NC adults. Conclusions: Overall these results demonstrate that the ESCoT is a useful test for clinical assessment and can aid in the detection of potential difficulties in ToM and social norm understanding.

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Social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorders: Validation of the Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT)

Baksh

Abrahams

Bertlich

et al. 2020

The Clinical Neuropsychologist

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“…It is intended as a test of appreciation of social norms and the perspectives of other people. Thiebaut et al. (2016) showed that ASD participants will detect faux pas where they are depicted almost as well as TDs.…”

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“…In order to investigate whether there is a potential link between repetitive behaviours and abilities associated with social cognition in the ASD participants, we administered the Cartoon Faux Pas Test (CFPT) developed by Thiebaut et al. (2016) .…”

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Executive function in high-functioning autism: Decision-making consistency as a characteristic gambling behaviour

White

Rees

et al. 2018

Cortex

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Restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviours, interests, or activities are a critical diagnostic criterion for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous studies using gambling paradigms with ASD populations have identified that, unlike typically developed control participants, people with a diagnosis of ASD tend to maintain particular response patterns regardless of the magnitude of potential outcomes to uncertain gains or losses. Here we designed a gambling test that permitted calculation of the response consistency in gambling choices in situations that presented varying expected outcomes in terms of gains or losses. The task was administered to 33 adults with a diagnosis of ASDs and compared to a group of 47 typically-developed (TD) control participants who were matched for age and IQ. When presented with choices where participants could either make a risky gamble or a safe choice in terms of gains or losses (e.g., 20% chance of winning £5 vs. 100% chance of winning £1), the ASD participants did not differ from the TDs in their overall risk-taking behaviour. However, they were more consistent in their individual choices from trial to trial. Furthermore, the proportion of participants who either implemented an invariate response strategy (e.g., either always choosing the most risky or most “safe” option) was significantly higher in the ASD group compared with the controls. Additionally, while the ASD group were slower to make their responses in the win frame and the first half of the lose frame, by the end of the task their decision times were the same as the TD controls. These findings suggest that the ASD tendency towards repetitive behaviour may demonstrate itself even in high-level decision-making tasks, which needs to be understood if we are to be sure what such tasks are measuring.

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“…El Test de los Ojos, a diferencia de los anteriores, no se basa en contextos sociales, sino que la atribución del estado mental o emocional debe hacerse a una imagen del contorno de los ojos de un rostro humano, siendo la identificación la interpretación de la expresión de esa mirada la que se asume como indicador de ToM. Se toma como Teoría de la Mente avanzada porque solo se cuenta con la información del contorno de los ojos y las atribuciones que se hacen no son solo emociones sino estados mentales e intenciones como por ejemplo, "ganas de jugar", "pensativo" o "satisfecho" ( Barón-Cohen, et al, 1997;Sprung, 2010), siendo esta su principal diferencia con los test de reconocimiento emocional, los cuales están centrados en que el sujeto identifique la expresión de una emoción, dejando de lado deseos, intenciones o estados mentales.…”

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Adaptación al español de cuatro instrumentos para evaluar la teoría de la mente en niños y adolescentes

Pineda-Alhucema¹,

Rubio²,

Aristizábal³

et al. 2019

Psicogente

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Introducción: La teoría de la mente (ToM) es una de las dimensiones de la Cognición Social más relevantes y de gran interés para la investigación en psicología del desarrollo, psicología cognitiva, neuropsicología y neurociencias sociales, así como en la labor clínica. Esto ha conllevado a la generación de instrumentos validados para la evaluación de esta función; sin embargo, en español son pocos los que hay y aún menos los adaptados para población infantil y adolescente. Objetivo: En el presente trabajo se presenta la adaptación de la Batería de la ToM, el inventario de la ToM, el Test de Paso en Falso y el Test de la Mirada, cuatro instrumentos con tareas clásicas para evaluar la ToM. Método: El proceso de adaptación se hizo en dos fases, una de traducción al español y otra de adaptación cultural. Para verificar los resultados se hizo un pilotaje para todos los instrumentos con 20 participantes en edades entre 4 y 13 años y 20 participantes entre 6 y 17 años. Resultados: Se presentan los cuatro instrumentos adaptados en español con los principales ajustes en cada uno de ellos. Discusión: Se discute sobre la importancia de generar un protocolo de valoración de la ToM haciendo una validación estadística de estos instrumentos.

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Does Faux Pas Detection in Adult Autism Reflect Differences in Social Cognition or Decision-Making Abilities?

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorders: Validation of the Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT)

Social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorders: Validation of the Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT)

Executive function in high-functioning autism: Decision-making consistency as a characteristic gambling behaviour

Adaptación al español de cuatro instrumentos para evaluar la teoría de la mente en niños y adolescentes

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