Yes / The link between autistic people having a mind that is difficult to read (by neurotypical participants) and being perceived
unfavorably was investigated. Videoed Autistic and neurotypical targets from Sheppard et al. (PLOS ONE 7(11):e49859,
2016) were scored for how readable they were when reacting to a distinctive greeting from the experimenter. These videos
were presented to new groups of perceivers (neurotypical adults) who rated neurotypical targets more socially favorably than
autistic targets irrespective of whether details of the experimenter’s greeting were concealed (Study 1) or disclosed (Study
2). 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. / Saudi Government Scholarship from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau (SACB).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17874 |
| Date | 04 June 2020 |
| Creators | Alkhaldi, R.S., Sheppard, E., Mitchell, Peter |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
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