A new research study states (per the October 15th Science Daily):
People with autism-related disorders are less likely to make irrational decisions, and are less influenced by gut instincts.
The study is published in the Journal of Neuroscience, and was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Professor Ray Dolan’s group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London looked at how the “framing effect”—according to which how we respond to a problem depends on how the problem is presented—affects decision-making in individuals with autism spectrum disorders:
Participants in the study performed a task involving deciding whether or not to gamble …read more