Assessing Moral Cognitive Skills in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders

In the CoMorA project, participants will participate to two independent tasks: an explicit one of deciding whether or not an emotion expressed on the face of a third person would be an appropriate emotional reaction to the offense, and an implicit one in which the subjects will have to determine the fastest sex to which the face expressing such or such an emotion belongs. This procedure initiates an implicit processing of the facial expression. The theoretical hypotheses of the CoMorA project are the following: * In the explicit response condition, people with ASD will show different emotional assignment patterns than controls do, depending on the nature of the offense (accidental transgression, attempted harm, and intentional harm). * In the implicit response condition, people with ASD will exhibit emotion processing patterns identical to those of controls. * The differences in responses of controls and people with ASD in the explicit condition will be underpinned by executive functions and social cognitive performances.