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Susceptibility to Social Influence in Adults with Asperger's Syndrome: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Bowler Dermot M.,
Worley Kierron
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb01214.x
Subject(s) - psychology , asperger syndrome , conformity , developmental psychology , autism , context (archaeology) , social environment , social relation , judgement , social psychology , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Asch's line judgement task was used to compare the susceptibility to social influence of adults with Asperger's syndrome with that of two groups of controls one of which was matched on verbal IQ, There was no overall difference between the three groups' mean rate of conformity but in contrast to both groups of controls, the subjects with Asperger's syndrome were significantly more likely to adopt a consistently conforming or non‐conforming strategy. There were also significant differences between the groups in their interaction with the cither participants. The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of current theories of autistic social dysfunction.