ArticleAutism in adulthood2019
Do First Impressions of Autistic Adults Differ Between Autistic and Nonautistic Observers?
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- First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
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- Nuances of double empathy in autistic and non-autistic people: examination using the empathic accuracy paradigm.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Cognitive Empathy, Affective Empathy and Empirical Research on the Double Empathy Problem: A Critical Methodology Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Turn-Taking Transitions in Conversations Among Autistic-Autistic, Non-Autistic-Non-Autistic, and Mixed-Neurotype Adult Pairs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A novel context-discrepancy assessment of impression management facets in autistic and non-autistic adults: an initial validation.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Discrepancies between feeling and expressing: Perceptions of autistic and non-autistic emotional expressions by non-autistic observers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- 'Breaking down a barrier': Autistic young people see virtual reality as a possible social support, but not a substitute for in-person interactions.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Intentional use and self-efficacy as distinct facets of impression management and their relationships with socio-motivational, cognitive, and mental health factors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- First Impressions Matter: Exploring Children's Negative Perceptions of Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Neuropsychology Strengths-Based Approach for the Assessment of Autism in Adults: Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Clients' Experiences of the Diagnosis and Feedback Process.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Understanding Autistic Identity Disclosure in Higher Education.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Comparing Self-Perceptions, Meta-Perceptions, and Peer Judgments of the Academic Experience of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Rapport in same and mixed neurotype groups of autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Attenuated behavioral interpersonal synchrony in autistic adults is not explained by perception of timing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The influence of interpersonal synchrony and autism on impressions of dyadic interactions: a preregistered study.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- 'I did what I could to earn some money and be of use': A qualitative exploration of autistic people's journeys to career success and fulfilment.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Autistic adults receive unfavorable first impressions from typically developing (TD) adults, but these impressions improve when TD adults are made aware of their diagnosis. It remains unclear, however, how autistic adults form first impressions of other autistic adults, and whether their impressions are similarly affected by diagnostic awareness. Methods: In this study, 32 autistic and 32 TD adults viewed brief videos of 20 TD and 20 autistic adults presented either with or without their diagnostic status and rated them on character traits and their interest in interacting with them in the future. Results: Findings indicated that autistic raters shared the TD tendency to evaluate autistic adults less favorably than TD adults, but these judgments did not reduce their social interest for interacting with autistic adults as they did for TD raters. Furthermore, informing raters of the diagnostic status of autistic adults did not improve first impressions for autistic raters as they did for TD raters, suggesting that autistic raters either already inferred their autism status when no diagnosis was provided or their impression formation is less affected by awareness of a person's diagnosis. Conclusions: Collectively, these results demonstrate that autistic observers make trait inferences about autistic adults comparable with those made by TD observers-suggesting a similar sensitivity to perceiving and interpreting social signifiers that differ between TD and autistic presentation styles-but unlike their TD counterparts, these trait judgments are not perceived as an impediment to subsequent social interaction and are relatively consistent regardless of diagnostic disclosure. Lay summary:
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