Brief Report: A Comparison of the Preference for Viewing Social and Non-social Movies in Typical and Autistic Adolescents
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- 作者：Indu Dubey ; Danielle Ropar…
- 关键词：Choose ; a ; Movie (CAM) task ; Social preference ; Social motivation ; Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) ; Adolescents
- 刊名：Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：47
- 期：2
- 页码：514-519
- 全文大小：1014KB
- 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
- 刊物主题：Child and School Psychology; Pediatrics; Neurosciences; Public Health;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1573-3432
- 卷排序：47
文摘
The recently proposed Social Motivation theory (Chevallier et al., Trends in cognitive sciences 16(4):231–239, 2012) suggests that social difficulties in Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) might be caused by a difference in the motivation to engage with other people. Here we compared adolescents with (N = 31) and without (N = 37) ASC on the Choose-a-Movie paradigm that measures the social seeking. The results showed a preference for viewing objects over smiling faces in ASC, which is in line with the theory of low social motivation. However, typical adolescents did not show any stimuli preferences, raising questions about developmental changes in social motivation. Age was found to play a significant role in moderating the choice behaviour of the participants. We discuss the implications of these findings in detail.