ArticleAutism in adulthood2021
Do Neurotypical People Like or Dislike Autistic People?
Article in Autism in adulthood, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
- Empathy and Interest Towards an Autistic Person and the Effect of Disclosing the Diagnosis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- The Joy and the Pain of Being Alone: Managing the Solitude-Loneliness (SOLO) Paradox in People High on the Autism Spectrum.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- De-gendering and dehumanization in mental representations of autistic men's and women's facial appearance.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Finding the Prevalence of Autism in Female Mental Illness: Improving Child Development for an Underdiagnosed and Undertreated Population.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- First Impressions Matter: Exploring Children's Negative Perceptions of Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Comparing Self-Perceptions, Meta-Perceptions, and Peer Judgments of the Academic Experience of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- The influence of interpersonal synchrony and autism on impressions of dyadic interactions: a preregistered study.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Social Skills Through an Autistic Lens: A Qualitative Analysis of Young Adults' Insights and Experiences.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Seeing it in others versus doing it yourself: Social desirability judgements and conversation production data from autistic and non-autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Autistic Students' Experiences of Employment and Employability Support while Studying at a UK University.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Non-autistic observers both detect and demonstrate the double empathy problem when evaluating interactions between autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- The neurosociological paradigm of the metaverse.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The relationship between autistic traits, expressiveness, readability and social perceptions.PloS one · 2024Article
- Negative first impression judgements of autistic children by non-autistic adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: This study investigated whether neurotypical individuals' judgments that they dislike a person are more common when viewing autistic individuals than when viewing neurotypical individuals. Methods: Videos of autistic and neurotypical targets were presented to a group of perceivers (neurotypical adults) who were asked whether or not they liked each target and why. Results: It was more common for perceivers to "like" neurotypical than autistic targets. The number of "likes" each target received correlated highly with perceiver ratings of target social favorability. Perceivers cited perceived awkwardness and lack of empathy as being reasons for deciding they disliked targets. Conclusions: The findings shed light on how neurotypical people (mis)perceive autistic people. Such perceptions may act as a barrier to social integration for autistic people. Lay summary:
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