Sentiment Analysis in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in an Ingroup/Outgroup Setting

• Published in: Journal of autism and developmental disorders Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 162 - 170
• Main Authors: Vaucheret Paz, E., Martino, M., Hyland, M., Corletto, M., Puga, C., Peralta, M., Deltetto, N., Kuhlmann, T., Cavalié, D., Leist, M., Duarte, B., Lascombes, I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Antisocial Behavior; Artificial intelligence; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorder - psychology; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Autistic children; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Child; Child and School Psychology; Child development deviations; Children; Childrens Attitudes; Cross-Sectional Studies; Developmental disabilities; Developmental disorders; Emotions; Empathy; Ethnic Groups - psychology; Female; Football; Humans; Intellectual Disability; Intellectual Disability - psychology; Learning Disabilities; Learning Disabilities - psychology; Learning disabled people; Male; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurological Impairments; Neurosciences; Original Paper; Pediatric neurology; Pediatrics; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Photic Stimulation; Prosocial Behavior; Psychological aspects; Psychology; Public Health; Sentiment analysis; Social aspects; Video Technology; Argentina; Empathy; Morality; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Artificial intelligence; Social norms; Third-party punishment
• ISSN: 0162-3257; 1573-3432; 1573-3432
• DOI: 10.1007/s10803-019-04242-3

People punish transgressors with different intensity depending if they are members of their group or not. We explore this in a cross-sectional analytical study with paired samples in children with developmental disorders who watched two videos and expressed their opinion. In Video-1, a football-player from the participant’s country scores a goal with his hand. In Video-2, a player from another country does the same against the country of the participant. Each subject watched the two videos and their answers were compared. The autism spectrum disorder (ASD) group showed negative feelings in Video 1 (M = − .1; CI 95% − .51 to .31); and in Video 2 (M = − .43; CI 95% .77 to − .09; t(8) = 1.64, p = .13), but the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, intellectual disability groups showed positive opinion in Video-1 and negative in Video-2. This suggests that children with ASD respect rules regardless of whether those who break them belong or not to their own group, possibly due to lower degrees of empathy.