Social Conformity and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Child-Friendly Take on a Classic Study

Autor/inn/en	Yafai, Abdul-Fattah; Verrier, Diarmuid; Reidy, Lisa
Titel	Social Conformity and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Child-Friendly Take on a Classic Study
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 18 (2014) 8, S.1007-1013 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361313508023
Schlagwörter	Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autism; Social Psychology; Social Behavior; Child Behavior; Miscue Analysis; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Questionnaires; Social Influences; Children; Elementary School Students; Stimuli; Performance Based Assessment; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Sozialpsychologie; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Fragebogen; Sozialer Einfluss; Child; Kind; Kinder; Anreizsystem; Leistungsermittlung; Ausland
Abstract	Perhaps surprisingly, given the importance of conformity as a theoretical construct in social psychology and the profound implications autism has for social function, little research has been done on whether autism is associated with the propensity to conform to a social majority. This study is a modern, child-friendly implementation of the classic Asch conformity studies. The performance of 15 children with autism was compared to that of 15 typically developing children on a line judgement task. Children were matched for age, gender and numeracy and literacy ability. In each trial, the child had to say which of three lines a comparison line matched in length. On some trials, children were misled as to what most people thought the answer was. Children with autism were much less likely to conform in the misleading condition than typically developing children. This finding was replicated using a continuous measure of autism traits, the Autism Quotient questionnaire, which showed that autism traits negatively correlated with likelihood to conform in the typically developing group. This study demonstrates the resistance of children with autism to social pressure. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10