ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2022
Anthropomorphic tendencies in autism: A conceptual replication and extension of White and Remington (2019) and preliminary development of a novel anthropomorphism measure.
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- Different exploration strategies along the autism spectrum: diverging effects of autism diagnosis and autism traits.Molecular autism · 2025Article
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- People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Could Interact More Easily with a Robot than with a Human: Reasons and Limits.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Differential relationships between autistic traits and anthropomorphic tendencies in adults and early adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Reading the room: Autistic traits, gaze behaviour, and the ability to infer social relationships.PloS one · 2023Article
- Emotion processing differences mediate the link between sex and autistic traits in young adulthood.JCPP advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
lay abstractAnthropomorphism is the tendency to attribute human-like qualities (e.g. thoughts and feelings) to non-human entities (e.g. objects and weather systems). Research by White and Remington (2019) suggested that anthropomorphism is more common in autistic compared to neurotypical adults, which is interesting given that autistic individuals sometimes misunderstand the thoughts and feelings of other people. In this article, we re-examined the link between autism and anthropomorphism in a large sample of adults with varying degrees of autistic traits, with several important methodological advances on previous research. Across two studies, we found that individuals with more autistic traits reported greater anthropomorphic tendencies. As part of these analyses, we had to develop a new, refined measure of anthropomorphism, which showed better reliability and validity than the original measure. This measure will be useful in future autism-related research. Overall, advancing White and Remington's study, these findings help us to better understand individual differences in socially relevant processes, including those that may be enhanced in autism (e.g. anthropomorphism).
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