Moral dilemmas film task: A study of spontaneous narratives by individuals with autism spectrum conditions

Autism Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 148-156

  Barnes, Jennifer L ^a,b,c   Lombardo, Michael V ^a   Wheelwright, Sally ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Empathy; Film; Moral cognition; Narrative; Story telling; Verbal ability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; MOTIVATION; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67651175979     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.79     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. APA. (1994). DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, 4th edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
2. Baron-Cohen, S. (1989). The autistic child's theory of mind: A case of specific developmental delay. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 19, 579-600.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindess. Cambridge: MIT Press.
4. Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a 'theory of mind'? Cognition, 21, 37-46.
5. Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2004). The empathy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 163-175. (Pubitemid 39023470)
6. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I. (2001). The 'reading the mind in the eyes' test revised version: a study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychiatry, 42, 241-252. (Pubitemid 32233124)
7. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., & Jolliffe, T. (1997). Is there a "language of the eyes"? Evidence from normal adults, and adults with autism or Asperger syndrome. Visual Cognition, 4, 311-331.
8. Bowler, D.M. (1992). "Theory of mind" in Asperger syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 877-893.
9. Capps, L., Losh, M., & Thurber, C. (2000). The frog ate the bug and made his mouth sad: narrative competence in children with autism. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 28, 193-204. (Pubitemid 30316995)
10. Dziobek, I., Fleck, S., Kalbe, E., Rogers, K., Hassenstab, J., et al. (2006). Introducing MASC: a movie for the assessment of social cognition. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 623-636. (Pubitemid 44336985)
11. Gansle, K.A., Noell, G.H., & VanDerHeyden, A.M. (2002). Moving beyond total written words: the reliability criterion validity, and time-cost of alternative curriculum-based measurement in writing. School Psychology Review, 31, 477-497.
12. Golan, O., Baron-Cohen, S., Hill, J., & Golan, Y. (2006). The "reading the mind in films" task: complex emotion recognition in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions. Social Neuroscience, 1, 111-123.
13. Happé, F.G.E. (1995). The role of age and verbal ability in the theory of mind task performance of subjects with autism. Child Development, 66, 843-855.
14. Heavey, L., Phillips, W., Baron-Cohen, S., & Rutter, M. (2000). The awkward moments test: a naturalistic measure of social understanding in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 30, 225-236. (Pubitemid 30748715)
15. Heider, F., & Simmel, M. (1944). An experimental study of apparent behavior. The American Journal of Psychology, 57, 243-259.
16. Holtzman, J., Elliot, N., Biber, C.L., & Sanders, R.M. (2005). Computerized assessment of dental student writing skills. Journal of Dental Education, 69, 285-295.
17. ICD-10. Geneva, Switzerland: World Heath Organization; 1994. International Classification of Diseases.
18. Keen, S. (2006). A theory of narrative empathy. Narrative, 14, 207-235.
19. Klin, A. (2000). Attributing social meaning to ambiguous visual stimuli in higher-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome: the social attribution task. Journal of Child Psychology, 41, 831-846.
20. Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R., Volkmar, F., & Cohen, D. (2002). Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 809-816. (Pubitemid 35001146)
21. Lord, C., & Paul, R. (1997). Language and communication in autism. In: Cohen, D.J., Volkmar, F.R., editors. Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc, pp 195-225.
22. Losh, M., & Capps, L. (2003). Narrative ability in high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 33, 239-251. (Pubitemid 36919115)
23. Nichols, S. (2004). Imagining and believing: The promise of a single code. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62, 129-139.
24. Paul, R., Augustyn, A., Klin, A., & Volkmar, F.R. (2005). Perception and production of prosody by speakers with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35, 205-220. (Pubitemid 40569143)
25. Rutherford, M.D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2002). Reading the mind in the voice: A study with normal adults and adults with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 32, 189-194. (Pubitemid 37486715)
26. Steiger, J.H. (1980). Tests for comparing elements of a correlation matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 87, 245-251.
27. Wechsler, D. (1999). Wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence. San Antonio: Psychological Corporation.