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Autistic research subjects more ethical; neuroscientists frame this as deficit
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoThe HN guidelines ask submitters not to editorialize the title. The actual title is "Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder"
- Ben1222 6y agoOk, but the choice of framing was what I found interesting enough to share. The title of the paper wouldn’t have indicated that.
- webmaven 6y ago"Compared with [healthy controls], individuals with ASD were much more likely to reject the opportunity to earn ill-gotten money by supporting a bad cause than [healthy controls]. Computational modeling revealed that this resulted from unduly weighing benefits for themselves and the bad cause, suggesting that ASD patients apply a rule of refusing to serve a bad cause because they over-evaluate the negative consequences of their actions."