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Does facial expressivity count? How typically developing children respond initially to children with autism

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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:59 authored by Steven D. Stagg, Rachel Slavny, Charlotte Hand, Alice Cardoso, Pamela Smith
Research investigating expressivity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has reported flat affect or bizarre facial expressivity within this population. The impact expressivity may have on first impression formation has received little research input. We examined how videos of children with ASD were rated for expressivity by adults blind to the condition. We further investigated the friendship ratings given by 44 typically developing (TD) children to the same videos. These ratings were compared to friendship ratings given to video clips of typically developing children. Results demonstrated that adult raters, blind to the diagnosis of the children in the videos, rated ASD children as being less facially expressive than TD children. These ASD children in the videos were also rated lower on all aspects of our friendship measures when compared with the TD children. Results suggest that impression formation is less positive towards children with autism spectrum disorder than to typically developing children.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

18

Issue number

6

Page range

704-711

Publication title

Autism

ISSN

1461-7005

Publisher

SAGE

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2014-04-30

Legacy creation date

2019-03-05

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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