I have a vague recollection of an interesting ASD psychological study I read about recently (maybe here?), but now can't track it down ( Read more... )

Hello, I got into a debate with someone over on a friend's LJ and basically need autistic help here. I'm going to have to c & p large parts of the conversation so you know what I'm talking about, and then I'd be really interested to hear what people here have to say about it, and if anyone's got any links that would back up my position then I'd ( Read more... )

I have been reading Asperger's from the Inside Out by Michael J. Carley over and over again. I highly recommend it and it really makes me think. This is one example ( Read more... )

...touches on theory of mind and so on.

(definitely on-topic, fyi ;) )

I was reading some back entries here and it really triggered a lot of thinking ( Read more... )

This is something that's been really bugging me lately, so I wanted to see what this community thinks about it ( Read more... )

Recently I did a paper for school on "theory of mind." Some research studies seemed very biased to me in their assumptions that autistic individuals do not have theory of mind, or have compromised theory of mind. (To clarify, 'theory of mind' encompasses the realization that each person in this world has his or her own thoughts and beliefs, which ( Read more... )

Here is one of the tests that Simon Baron-Cohen uses to assess theory of mind. I've placed a sample question in this post. Try to answer before looking at the rest of the post, and if you don't get the "right" answer, try to explain why you answered differently in your comment, and most importantly, whether you think the test is accurate at ( Read more... )

Kind of related to a post a few below this one -- what is the best way to refute the "experts" that say asperger's folks don't possess a normal "theory of mind" -- meaning the ability to empathize with other people ( Read more... )

Hmm. There's a study that seems to show that Americans have less theory of mind than Chinese.

I'm a bit dubious of the study, because it doesn't say what words were used to direct people to move the block. The article says they were told "to move a block," but if the phrase used were "move a block," instead of "move the block," then that could ( Read more... )