Decontextualised minds: Adolescents with autism are less susceptible to the conjunction fallacy than typically developing adolescents

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1378-1388

  Morsanyi, Kinga ^a   Handley, Simon J ^a   Evans, Jonathan S B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Conjunction fallacy; Contextualisation; Developmental disorders; Heuristics and biases; Judgment and decision making

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 78549246734     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-0993-z     Document Type: Article

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