Reasoning in social versus non-social domains and its relation to autistic traits
Elif Bastan,
Roberta McGuinness,
Sarah R Beck
et al.
Abstract:Enhanced rationality has been linked to higher levels of autistic traits, characterised by increased deliberation and decreased intuition, alongside reduced susceptibility to common reasoning biases. However, it is unclear whether this is domain-specific or domain-general. We aimed to explore whether reasoning tendencies differ across social and non-social domains in relation to autistic traits. We conducted two experiments (N1 = 72, N2 = 217) using a reasoning task with social and non-social scenario comparis… Show more
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