Journal
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 84-88Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004
Keywords
Perspective-taking; Gender; Personality; Autistic traits; Individual differences
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- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I019545/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/I019545/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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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. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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