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From: Inflexible daily behaviour is associated with the ability to control an automatic reaction in autism spectrum disorder

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Overview of experimental measures for evaluating behavioural flexibility. (a) Ultimatum game: In this task, the proposer offered to split a sum of ten coins with the participant (i.e. responder). The participant was told that if he/she accepted the offer, both the proposer and the responder would be paid accordingly; however, if the participant rejected the offer, neither the proposer nor the responder would receive any payment. Twenty-five monetary offers were proposed to the participants, each containing red and blue coins indicating the share for the proposer (red coins) and for the responder/participants (blue coins). (b) Implicit-association test (IAT): IAT comprises a series of response time tasks that require participants to classify word stimuli that appear at the lower portion of a computer screen into corresponding categories and paired attributes appearing in the upper left or right. In this study, we applied the IAT concerning moral trade-offs to maximise social welfare (i.e. profit/loss vs. fairness/unfairness attributes).

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