Background Socio-emotional impairments are among the diagnostic criteria for autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), but the actual knowledge has substantiated both altered and intact …

Gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at) is an under-researched phenomenon in autistic
people, yet can have a significant impact on autistic people's quality of life. A narrative …

Neurodevelopmental disorders are associated with differences in learning and motivation
that can influence executive function, including behavioral flexibility and decision making …

To conclude, there are likely to be many routes from cognition to anxiety within individuals,
including autistic individuals. This should not, of course, detract from careful examinations of …

Metaethics is a field of philosophy that addresses fundamental questions about the nature of
morality. One of the central disputes in metaethics is whether moral realism is true. Moral …

There has been a paradigm shift within research exploring autistic experience in recent
decades towards greater participation, agency and voice for autistic researchers and the …

People radically differ in how they cope with uncertainty. Clinical researchers describe a
dispositional characteristic known as “intolerance of uncertainty”, a tendency to find …

Background: Efficient information sampling is crucial for human inference and decision-
making, even for young children. Information sampling is also closely associated with the …

Current literature on autism has tended to examine individual traits and characteristics, or
the link between two or three traits. This thesis will outline previous literature on the cognitive …

Differences in sensory reactivity have been well documented in autistic people of all ages,
with differences reported in all modalities, both interoceptive and exteroceptive. Autistic …