When two people look at the same object in the environment and are aware of each other's
attentional state, they find themselves in a shared-attention episode. This can occur through …

Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which
are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …

Challenges in social cognition and communication are core characteristics of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), but in some domains, individuals with ASD may display typical …

Un livre conçu à la fois pour l'entourage des enfants autistes, pour les professionnels de la
santé et pour les décideurs politiques. Aux antipodes de la psychanalyse comme des …

Purpose There is a common mischaracterisation that autistic individuals have reduced or
absent empathy. Measurement issues may have influenced existing findings on the …

Growing evidence, as presented by Jaswal & Akhtar, indicates that social motivation is not
universally reduced in autism. Here, we evaluate and extend this argument in light of recent …

Differences between autistic and nonautistic people are often framed as deficits. This
research considers whether some of these differences might actually be strengths. In …

To understand why autistic people are misperceived in the way Jaswal & Akhtar suggest, we
should embrace concepts like the “double empathy problem” and camouflaging and …

The software development profession suffers from severe gender biases, which could be
explicit and implicit. However, SE literature has not systematically explored and evaluated …

This article presents a novel theoretical perspective on the role of cognitive biases within the
autism and schizophrenia spectrum by integrating the evolutionary and computational …