Dubey Indu, Ropar Danielle, de C Hamilton Antonia F
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Feb;47(2):514-519. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2974-3.
The recently proposed Social Motivation theory (Chevallier et al., Trends in cognitive sciences 16(4):231-239, 2012) suggests that social difficulties in Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) might be caused by a difference in the motivation to engage with other people. Here we compared adolescents with (N = 31) and without (N = 37) ASC on the Choose-a-Movie paradigm that measures the social seeking. The results showed a preference for viewing objects over smiling faces in ASC, which is in line with the theory of low social motivation. However, typical adolescents did not show any stimuli preferences, raising questions about developmental changes in social motivation. Age was found to play a significant role in moderating the choice behaviour of the participants. We discuss the implications of these findings in detail.
最近提出的社会动机理论(Chevallier等人,《认知科学趋势》16(4):231 - 239, 2012)表明,自闭症谱系障碍(ASC)中的社交困难可能是由与他人交往动机的差异所导致的。在此,我们在用于测量社交寻求的“选电影”范式中,对患有(N = 31)和未患有(N = 37)ASC的青少年进行了比较。结果显示,患有ASC的青少年更倾向于观看物体而非笑脸,这与低社会动机理论相符。然而,典型发育的青少年并未表现出对任何刺激的偏好,这引发了关于社会动机发展变化的问题。研究发现年龄在调节参与者的选择行为方面发挥着重要作用。我们将详细讨论这些发现的意义。