In sum, we found that autistic traits influence how people use probabilistic information for decision-making. People with high autistic traits are highly driven by the accuracy of judgment even though pursuing the accuracy means costing their expected reward, while people with low autistic traits are more adaptively driven by expected reward.

Source: INSAR 2018 Annual Meeting: Adults with High Autistic Traits Are Reluctant to Trade Accuracy for Monetary Reward: A Probabilistic Reasoning Experiment

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