Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 113-120.

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Understanding of Lies and its Relation to the Understanding of Self and Others’ False Belief in Children With and Without Autism

GULNUR Azat1, SU Yan-jie1, YU Wen2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
    2. Central School for Mental Retardation, Haidian District, Beijing 100089, China
  • Online:2014-03-15 Published:2014-03-15

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Abstract: Children with autism are described to have impairments in theory of mind development and may have difficulties in understanding lies. This study compared children with autism to typically developed and intellectually disabled children on whether they can judge deceptive behavior, discriminate lies from truth, and understand its deceptive intentions. 19 autistic, 20 typically developed and 19 intellectually disabled children undertook two lie identification tasks which were situated in politeness situations. The deceptive messages were presented in two conditions: verbal and nonverbal. We found autistic children showed more difficulties in the recognition of real messages and understanding deceptive intentions, while the judgment of deceptive behavior remained intact. Their recognition of real messages were related with understanding of others' false belief, meanwhile having a diminished awareness of their own false belief, may be associated with diminution in understanding intentions. And the effect of presentation conditions to be insignificant.

Key words: the judgment of deceptive behavior, recognition of real message, understanding intentions, false belief, autism

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  • B844.1
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