Reduced stereotypicality and spared use of facial expression predictions for social evaluation in autism
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Marta Robles [1] ; Irene Ramos-Grille [1] ; Amaia Hervás [3] ; Enric Duran-Tauleria [4] ; Jordi Galiano-Landeira [1] ; Jolie B. Wormwood [2] ; Christine M. Falter-Wagner [5] ; Lorena Chanes [1]
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[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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[2] University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
Town of Durham, Estados Unidos
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[3] Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona
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[4] Institut Global d'Atenció Integral del Neurodesenvolupament (IGAIN), Barcelona
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[5] LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich
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- Localización: International journal of clinical and health psychology, ISSN 1697-2600, Vol. 24, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 21-30
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Background/Objective Autism has been investigated through traditional emotion recognition paradigms, merely investigating accuracy, thereby constraining how potential differences across autistic and control individuals may be observed, identified, and described. Moreover, the use of emotional facial expression information for social functioning in autism is of relevance to provide a deeper understanding of the condition.
Method Adult autistic individuals (n = 34) and adult control individuals (n = 34) were assessed with a social perception behavioral paradigm exploring facial expression predictions and their impact on social evaluation.
Results Autistic individuals held less stereotypical predictions than controls. Importantly, despite such differences in predictions, the use of such predictions for social evaluation did not differ significantly between groups, as autistic individuals relied on their predictions to evaluate others to the same extent as controls.
Conclusions These results help to understand how autistic individuals perceive social stimuli and evaluate others, revealing a deviation from stereotypicality beyond which social evaluation strategies may be intact.
