Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective-taking ability in typical adults

Tad T. Brunyé; Tali Ditman; Grace E. Giles; Caroline R. Mahoney; Klaus Kessler; Holly A. Taylor

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004

Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective-taking ability in typical adults

Tad T. Brunyé, Tali Ditman, Grace E. Giles, Caroline R. Mahoney, Klaus Kessler, Holly A. Taylor

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	84-88
Number of pages	5
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	52
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004
Publication status	Published - Jan 2012

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and individual differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Brunyé, TT, Ditman, T, Giles, GE, Mahoney, CR, Kessler, K & Taylor, HA, 'Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective-taking ability in typical adults' Personality and individual differences, vol. 52, no. 1 (2012) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004

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Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and individual differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Brunyé, TT, Ditman, T, Giles, GE, Mahoney, CR, Kessler, K & Taylor, HA, 'Gender and autistic personality traits predict perspective-taking ability in typical adults' Personality and individual differences, vol. 52, no. 1 (2012) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004
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