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Socially interested, or socially sophisticated? On mutual social influence in autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2019

Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc  and
Isabelle Soulières
Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, H1E 1A4. b.forgeot@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/forgeot-udem Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Canada, H3T 1C5
Isabelle Soulières
Affiliation:
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Canada, H3T 1C5 Psychology Department, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, H3C 3P8. soulieres.isabelle@uqam.cahttps://laboidea.uqam.ca/
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Abstract

A lower tendency to influence and be influenced by their social environment seems almost self-evident in autism. However, a closer look at differences and similarities between autistic and non-autistic individuals suggests that some basic mechanisms involved in social influence might be intact in autism, whereas atypical responses point to differences in more sophisticated recursive social strategies, such as reputation management.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e89
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