The claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind—that they fail to understand that other
people have a mind or that they themselves have a mind—pervades psychology. This article …

Abnormalities in social interaction are a common feature of several psychiatric disorders,
aligning with the recent move towards using Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to describe …

Highlights•Human social behavior requires understanding and thinking about other
minds.•Research on mentalizing faces challenges in validity, specificity and …

Communication deficits are a defining feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), manifest
during social interactions. Previous studies investigating communicative deficits have largely …

Social decision making is often challenging for autistic individuals. Twenty autistic
adolescents made decisions in the socially interactive context of a one-shot ultimatum game …

Cooperation is a fundamental human ability that seems to be inversely related to aggressive
behaviour in typical development. However, there is no knowledge whether similar …

In social contexts, we refer to strategic sophistication as the ability to adapt our own behavior
based on the possible actions of others. In the current study, we explore the role of other …

Individuals with autism may perform well in structured Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks that
assess their ability to infer mental states, yet encounter challenges in everyday social …

A growing body of theoretical research has modeled out-of-equilibrium choices in interactive
games by assuming variability in players' beliefs, social preferences and optimization …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) considers problems of learning policies and
predicting values through interactions with multiple opponents. To make the solutions …