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Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective-taking ability in typical adults |
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| Authors: | Tad T. Brunyé ,Tali Ditman,Grace E. Giles,Caroline R. Mahoney,Klaus KesslerHolly A. Taylor |
| Affiliation: | a Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford, MA, USA b US Army NSRDEC, Cognitive Science, Natick, MA, USA c Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA d University of Glasgow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Glasgow, UK |
| Abstract: | Adopting another’s visual perspective is exceedingly common and may underlie successful social interaction and empathizing with others. The individual differences responsible for success in perspective-taking, however, remain relatively undiscovered. We assessed whether gender and autistic personality traits in normal college student adults predict the ability to adopt another’s visual perspective. In a task differentially recruiting VPT-1 which involves following another’s line of sight, and VPT-2 which involves determining how another may perceive an object differently given their unique perspective (VPT-2), we found effects of both gender and autistic personality traits. Specifically, we demonstrate slowed VPT-2 but not VPT-1 performance in males and females with relatively high ASD-characteristic personality traits; this effect, however was markedly stronger in males than females. Results contribute to knowledge regarding ASD-related personality traits in the general population and the individual differences modulating perspective-taking abilities. |
| Keywords: | Perspective-taking Gender Personality Autistic traits Individual differences |
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