An investigation of the 'jumping to conclusions' data-gathering bias and paranoid thoughts in Asperger Syndrome

Jänsch, Claire and Hare, Dougal Julian 2014. An investigation of the 'jumping to conclusions' data-gathering bias and paranoid thoughts in Asperger Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 44 (1) , pp. 111-119. 10.1007/s10803-013-1855-2

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Abstract

The existence of a data-gathering bias, in the form of jumping to conclusions, and links to paranoid ideation was investigated in Asperger syndrome (AS). People with AS (N = 30) were compared to a neurotypical control group (N = 30) on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes and the Beads tasks, with self-report measures of depression, general anxiety, social anxiety, self-consciousness and paranoid ideation. The AS group performed less well than the control group on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task with regard to accuracy but responded more quickly and tended to make decisions on the basis of less evidence on the Beads Task with 50 % demonstrating a clear ‘jumping to conclusions bias’, whereas none of the control group showed such a bias. Depression and general anxiety were associated with paranoid ideation but not data-gathering style, which was contrary to expectation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0162-3257
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/80958

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