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Farah Ghosn; Manuel Perea; Marta Lizarán; Melanie Labusch; Alba Moreno-Giménez; Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal; Belén Almansa; Julia Buesa; Laura Campos; Juan A. Pérez; Ana García-Blanco – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Prior research has shown conflicting findings on decision-making differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals. To address this issue, we applied the Ultimatum and Dictator Games to examine explicit measures (probability of endorsing monetary offers) and implicit measures (response times) associated with decision-making behaviors. By…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Adolescents
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Wadhera, Tanu; Kakkar, Deepti; Singh, Joy Karan; Sharma, Nonita; Rani, Rajneesh – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2023
The perception ability has attained much recognition in the identification of cognitive processing and decision-making in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) individuals. However, the prior studies have subjectively worked on perception ability using conditioning paradigms that can be intolerable for ASD individuals. The present paper quantitatively…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Perceptual Impairments, Visual Perception, Decision Making
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DeWitt, Amy L. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2020
Introduction: Guiding Eyes for the Blind (GEB) breeds, raises, and trains dogs to serve as guides for people with visual impairments (i.e., those who are blind or have low vision). Their puppy raising program enlists volunteers to foster puppies for a year or more, providing socialization, basic skills training, and comfort, so they will grow into…
Descriptors: Animals, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Volunteers
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Notebaert, Lies; Masschelein, Stijn; Wright, Bridget; MacLeod, Colin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Anxiety prepares an organism for dealing with threats by recruiting cognitive resources to process information about the threat, and by engaging physiological systems to prepare a response. Heightened trait anxiety is associated with biases in both these processes: high trait-anxious individuals tend to report heightened risk perceptions, and…
Descriptors: Risk, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Physiology
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Kvarfordt, Connie L.; Sheridan, Michael J. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2009
This investigation is a secondary analysis of a data set (N=283) drawn from a national, probability sample of clinical social workers in the United States. The original study used a cross-sectional, correlational survey design to gather information on practitioners' personal religious/spiritual beliefs and practices; professional attitudes,…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Probability, Ethics, Social Work