Susceptibility to the audience effect explains performance gap between children with and without autism in a theory of mind task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 972-979

  Chevallier, Coralie ^a   Parish Morris, Julia ^a,b   Tonge, Natasha ^a   Le, Lori ^a   Miller, Judith ^a   Schultz, Robert T ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience effect; Autism spectrum disorders; Motivation; Reputation; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL FACILITATION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84901492907     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035483     Document Type: Article

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