title: Trust and Deception in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Social Learning Perspective.
abstract: Previous research has demonstrated abnormal trust and deception behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and we aimed to examine whether these abnormalities were primarily due to their specific deficits in social learning. We tested 42 high-functioning children with ASD and 38 age- and ability-matched typically developing (TD) children in trust and deception tasks and a novel condition with reduced social components. Results indicated that while TD children improved their performance with more social components, children with ASD lacked this additional performance gain, though they performed similarly as TD children in the condition with reduced social components. Our findings highlight that deficits of ASD in trust and deception are primarily associated with failure of use of social cues.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, China.
authors.forename: Yiying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Southern China Research Center of Statistical Science, School of Mathematical and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: Qingdao Autism Research Institute, 7 Jinsong Seven Road, Qingdao, 266000, Shandong, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.|Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Haoyang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, China. wei_kunlin@126.com.
authors.forename: Kunlin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, China. yilipku@pku.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yi
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000067570:Social Learning; D035502:Trust
keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Deception; Social learning; Trust