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- The study investigates how Tourette syndrome (TS) influences social cognitive skills, particularly moral decision-making and reasoning, comparing adolescents with TS to healthy controls.
- Findings reveal that individuals with TS are more likely to favor utilitarian solutions in moral dilemmas while also applying moral principles to determine right and wrong.
- The results indicate that, despite a possible difficulty in controlling inappropriate behaviors, individuals with TS demonstrate intact moral reasoning, suggesting a unique perspective on moral decisions.
Article Abstract
Despite the growing interest on how Tourette syndrome (TS) affects social cognition skills, this field remains to date relatively under-explored. Here, we aim to advance knowledge on the topic by studying moral decision-making and moral reasoning in a group of adolescents with TS and a group of healthy controls. Overall, we found higher endorsement (i.e. a greater 'yes' response rate) for utilitarian solutions of incidental and instrumental moral dilemmas in TS compared to controls. By contrast, we reported an overall higher tendency of TS individuals to apply principles described in the moral foundation questionnaire to establish whether something is morally right or wrong. Our results document intact moral reasoning in TS and suggest that a deficit in suppressing inappropriate behaviours and/or altered sense of agency might be responsible for their higher utilitarian moral decision-making.
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