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It was found that ASD participants were perceived more negatively on a number of the socially desirable traits examined, including attractiveness, likability, and dominance. | It was found that ASD participants were perceived more negatively on a number of the socially desirable traits examined, including attractiveness, likability, and dominance. | ||
A later study (Alkhaldi, Sheppard & Mitchell, 2019) partially replicated the findings of the previous study and helped to further elucidate the possible casual factors behind this negative evaluation of ASD individuals. Using the pre-recorded video responses of autistic and NT participants (n=40, 20 ASD and 20 NT) to various stimuli of them interacting with researchers (compliment, joke, story, waiting), which were then evaluated by 31 typically developing perceivers (10 males and 21 females), it was found that ASD individuals were perceived less favorably on a number of dimensions. A second study was also performed, replicating the results of the previous study, but the participants were informed which scenario each of the participants in the study were experiencing, in the aims of helping the participants contexualize the behavior they were observing. | |||
Perceiver ratings were also utilized to calculate a "readability" score (how easy it was to perceive the participants emotional and affective states), and it was found that over the course of two studies, the readability score correlated moderately to strongly (r = 0.58 for the first study and 0.63 for the second) with the negative or positive evaluations of the target's characteristics. Thus the negative perceptions of autistic individuals are possibly mediated by the observers difficulty in reading their emotions or intentions. The researchers stated this could either be because this unreadability was associated with perceptions of lower trustworthiness or simply because this unreadability is associated with behaving in a manner that is perceived as eccentric or "out of the ordinary", which therefore results in the greater negative perceptions of them. | |||
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* ''In turn, this may limit opportunities in ASD for developing social connections and friendships, as well as the intergroup contact necessary for mitigating negative biases when present.'' | * ''In turn, this may limit opportunities in ASD for developing social connections and friendships, as well as the intergroup contact necessary for mitigating negative biases when present.'' | ||
* ''Based on evidence in the literature and the data presented here, we propose that negative first impressions of ASD are not founded on any one feature of expression, but rather represent an effect of subtle physical, dynamic, and auditory cues of presentation that can also include additional features, such as clothing choices, grooming habits, gaze patterns, or body posture.'' | * ''Based on evidence in the literature and the data presented here, we propose that negative first impressions of ASD are not founded on any one feature of expression, but rather represent an effect of subtle physical, dynamic, and auditory cues of presentation that can also include additional features, such as clothing choices, grooming habits, gaze patterns, or body posture.'' | ||
* ''Target readability correlated with ratings of target favorability (r = .58 and r = .63), independent of target diagnosis. Perceivers might rate targets unfavorably because they experience difficulty reading them, though other interpretations of the correlation are also possible.''(Alkhaldi et al. 2019) | |||
* ''If being unreadable is associated with being rated socially unfavorable, as suggested by our findings, it could in turn have very negative consequences for the development of autistic individuals. This follows if being perceived unfavorably is a barrier to inclusion in the social world, where autistic people, who are in the population minority, instead are condemned to isolation.'' (Alkhaldi et al. 2019) | |||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | ||
* Sasson NJ. Faso DJ, Nugent J, Lovell S, Kennedy DP, Grossman RB. 2019. ''Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments.'' Scientific Reports. 7: 40700. [[https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40700#discussion FullText]] | * Sasson NJ. Faso DJ, Nugent J, Lovell S, Kennedy DP, Grossman RB. 2019. ''Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments.'' Scientific Reports. 7: 40700. [[https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40700#discussion FullText]] | ||
* Alkhaldi RS, Sheppard E, Mitchell PJ. 2019. ''Is There a Link Between Autistic People Being Perceived Unfavorably and Having a Mind That Is Difficult to Read?'' Autism Dev Disord: pp 1-10. [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-019-04101-1#aboutcontent FullText]] | |||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Autistic men have 10 times as many suicidal thoughts as normal men</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Autistic men have 10 times as many suicidal thoughts as normal men</span>=== | ||