Moral reasoning and decision making help guide behavior and facilitate interpersonal
relationships. Accounts of morality that position commonsense psychology as the foundation …

Social cognition refers to a complex set of mental abilities underlying social stimulus
perception, processing, interpretation, and response. Together, these abilities support the …

Autistic people often feel they have to present as neurotypical or perform neurotypical social
behaviours in order to fit in. So-called'masking'is a social survival strategy used by autistic …

Although the bystander effect is one of the most important findings in the psychological
literature, researchers have not explored whether autistic individuals are prone to the …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by a core difference in theory-of-mind
(ToM) ability, which extends to alterations in moral judgment and decision-making. Although …

When asked to say whether an agent is morally good or bad, younger preschoolers tend to
rely more on the outcomes of agents' actions than on agents' intentions, whereas older …

During preschool years, children's disapprovals of harming actions increasingly rely on
intention rather than outcome. Here we studied for the first time whether a similar outcome-to …

Prior studies have compared neural connectivity during mentalizing tasks in autism (ASD) to
non-autistic individuals and found reduced connectivity between the inferior frontal gyrus …

Social knowledge refers to the ability to analyze and reason about social situations in
relation to social rules which are essential to the development of social skills and social …

Previous researches on Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show the difficulty in supporting
and taking care of these individuals, especially during adolescence. In our study a …