Divergent roles of autistic and alexithymic traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism.

Thus, while higher general non-verbal intellectual abilities were associated with higher endorsement for utilitarian option on personal dilemmas in healthy controls, the pattern was exactly opposite in ASD participants such that higher SPM scores were predictive of reduced tendency to behave in utilitarian manner, although the correlation was only marginally significant (see Fig. 3 ; also see Supplementary Information (Text S11) for a similar scatterplot for MWT-B).

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