{"id":1402,"date":"2018-05-23T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2018-06-07T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:53:27","slug":"people-with-asd-risk-being-manipulated-because-they-cant-tell-when-theyre-being-lied-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/05\/23\/people-with-asd-risk-being-manipulated-because-they-cant-tell-when-theyre-being-lied-to\/","title":{"rendered":"People with ASD risk being manipulated because they can\u2019t tell when they\u2019re being lied to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New research from\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/williamsd\/\">Professor David Williams<\/a><strong>\u00a0and colleagues indicates that the ability to detect lies is diminished in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) \u2013 putting them at greater risk of being manipulated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"\"><span class=\"current-selection\">The researchers discovered that lie detection abilities were significantly lower in those with a full ASD diagnosis, as well as neurotypical subjects who exhibit ASD traits<\/span><\/span><span class=\"current-selection\">.\u00a0<\/span>They consider whether individuals with ASD would benefit from training to detect behavioural indicators of lying.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See the full study, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/aur.1962\"><em>&#8216;Can you spot a liar? Deception, mindreading, and the case of Autism Spectrum Disorder&#8217;.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0For the full story, visit the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/18119\/people-with-asd-risk-being-manipulated-because-they-cant-tell-when-theyre-being-lied-to\">News Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from\u00a0Professor David Williams\u00a0and colleagues indicates that the ability to detect lies is diminished in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) \u2013 putting them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/05\/23\/people-with-asd-risk-being-manipulated-because-they-cant-tell-when-theyre-being-lied-to\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55574,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43601,140631,3684,70,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}