The Relation Of Specific Psychopathology With Social...

The article presented by Gray et al (2010), thoroughly examines the relations of specific psychopathology with social perception. Autism spectrum disorder, schizotypy and psychopathy will be further inspected and researched through a transdiagnostic approach – treating these disorders as impairments of the underlying cognitive system instead of as a difference in entity. Gray et al (2010), tries to define the aforementioned disorders with both an agency (cognitive abilities and control) and an experience (primitive or animalistic behaviours) score which are underlying aspects of mind perception. Mind perception can either be defined as overperception, perceiving a nonexistent mind, or underperception, failing to perceive those with an†¦show more content†¦The research was conducted with results from Self-Report online questionnaires designed to assess Autism, Schizotypy Personality and Psychopathy. Every participant were asked to complete web versions of the Autism Sp ectrum Quotient scale (AQ), the Schizotypy Personality Questionnaire (SPQ-B) and the Self Report Psychopathy Scale (SPR-III). To encourage participants to be honest with their answers, respect for participants rights and dignity was sustained through getting rid of a subscale from SPR-III that may had confidentiality concerns. Correlations for agency and experience were adjusted to make sure no third variable influences or confounds are included in the final result. Any significant correlations were adjusted to maintain the transparency of the results. These questionnaires included questions that not only concerns men and women but of other entities such: as dogs, baby, dead women, God, robot, Superman, and trees. With assessment of these agency and experience correlation scores, the researchers can validate the influences of these mental disorders with social perception. Having a selection of different choices on the questionnaire strengthens and allows an accurate representation of how these individuals perceive the entities, especially if they can be categorized. If one were to find an outlier, then perhaps there’s a special subjective view of that entity by the