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Brief Report: Perspective Taking Deficits, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Allaying Police Officers' Suspicions about Criminal Involvement
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Young, Robyn L.; Brewer, Neil – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
We examined whether perspective taking (or Theory of Mind) deficits that characterize autistic individuals predict whether they have trouble extricating themselves from situations in which police officers erroneously suspect them of a crime. Autistic and typically developing adults listened to scenarios in which they were placed in situations…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Perspective Taking, Theory of Mind