TY - GEN
T1 - The influence of traits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on the detection of fake news
AU - Taylor-Jackson, Jacqui
AU - Matthews, Sophie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - ![CDATA[It has been suggested that neuro-diverse individuals may be particularly good at detecting online deception (Pick 2019). A small-scale exploratory study was conducted to investigate whether individuals with traits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were more or less accurate in spotting different types of fake news. A non-clinical sample of university students completed an online identification task, where both fake and real articles items were manipulated in terms of their emotive content. When individuals with low and high scores on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen et al. 2001) were compared, there were no significant main effects on detection accuracy. However, there were two significant interactions, indicating an interesting relationship between message emotiveness, ASD and fake news detection. The results contribute to an understanding of how psychological differences, in particular ASD, may affect online judgements and will contribute to a developing body of work relating positive skills of neuro-diverse individuals to the cybersecurity industry.]]
AB - ![CDATA[It has been suggested that neuro-diverse individuals may be particularly good at detecting online deception (Pick 2019). A small-scale exploratory study was conducted to investigate whether individuals with traits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were more or less accurate in spotting different types of fake news. A non-clinical sample of university students completed an online identification task, where both fake and real articles items were manipulated in terms of their emotive content. When individuals with low and high scores on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen et al. 2001) were compared, there were no significant main effects on detection accuracy. However, there were two significant interactions, indicating an interesting relationship between message emotiveness, ASD and fake news detection. The results contribute to an understanding of how psychological differences, in particular ASD, may affect online judgements and will contribute to a developing body of work relating positive skills of neuro-diverse individuals to the cybersecurity industry.]]
KW - autism spectrum disorders
KW - computer security
KW - fake news
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:57508
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-60152-2_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-60152-2_35
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783030601515
SP - 464
EP - 472
BT - HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Papers: Interaction, Knowledge and Social Media: 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19-24, 2020, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Y2 - 19 July 2019
ER -