College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2020 Jun;50(6):2234-2239. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-03968-4.
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 where the police erroneously believe they had been involved in crime. Each scenario contained critical information that, if recognized and provided to the police, would confirm non-involvement in the crime. Autistic adults performed markedly worse than controls on perspective taking measures and the extrication task. Verbal IQ and memory performance accounted for significant variance in extrication performance, and perspective taking explained an additional and significant 15% of variance in extrication performance.
我们考察了自闭症个体所具有的换位思考（或心理理论）缺陷是否会影响他们是否难以摆脱警察错误怀疑他们犯罪的情境。自闭症和典型发展的成年人听取了他们被置于警察错误地认为他们参与犯罪的情境的场景。每个场景都包含关键信息，如果被识别并提供给警察，将确认他们与犯罪无关。自闭症成年人在换位思考措施和解脱任务上的表现明显差于对照组。言语智商和记忆表现解释了解脱表现的显著差异，而换位思考解释了额外的、显著的 15%的解脱表现的差异。
