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Are autistic people more or less likely to form false memories?

Murphy et al. (with CRAE's Geoff Bird) show that memory might work differently: not more or less accurately, but more deliberately.

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May 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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ToM measuring has its limitations. Conway et al (2024).

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Dismay: Tasks with actors. Photos of eyes. Made up stories.
Gladness: The real situation others are in. An understanding of how people vary.

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Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures: commentary on Wendt et al. (2024)
This paper sees potential problems with traditional ToM tests by identifying the types of skills that are necessary for ToM judgements. Often, as psychologists, we are attempting to design experime…
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July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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It's not all bleak. Some autistic educators describe schools where their expertise is recognised, autonomy is real, and "everyone can learn from everyone".
New #CRAEsummary of Spiegler et al. (2025)

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#SummarisedByHumans
A red hand-drawn circle around an "A+" mark, with "Autistic" curving along the lower edge and "teachers" along the upper edge, reading "A+ Autistic teachers" — styled like a teacher's grade. Title text alongside reads: "Autistic educators' views and experiences of inclusion and exclusion: How workplace culture shapes belonging", Spiegler et al. (2025), CRAE.
June 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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It's not all bleak. Some autistic educators describe schools where their expertise is recognised, autonomy is real, and "everyone can learn from everyone".
New #CRAEsummary of Spiegler et al. (2025)

crae.ioe.ac.uk/autis...
#SummarisedByHumans
A red hand-drawn circle around an "A+" mark, with "Autistic" curving along the lower edge and "teachers" along the upper edge, reading "A+ Autistic teachers" — styled like a teacher's grade. Title text alongside reads: "Autistic educators' views and experiences of inclusion and exclusion: How workplace culture shapes belonging", Spiegler et al. (2025), CRAE.
May 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Metacognition facilitates theory of mind through optimal weighting of trait inferences
Long, Catmur, Fleming & CRAE's Geoff Bird (2025)

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Confidence in guessing what others are thinking is shaped by how similar we think we are to them.
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Metacognition facilitates theory of mind through optimal weighting of trait inferences
They found that our confidence in a judgment is shaped by how similar we think the other person is to ourselves… and how well we actually know ourselves. So the idea that, “I know what he’s thinkin…
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July 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM