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Specificity, contexts, and reference groups matter when assessing autistic traits

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  • Morton Ann Gernsbacher
  • Jennifer L Stevenson
  • Sebastian Dern

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Many of the personality and behavioral traits (e.g., social imperviousness, directness in conversation, lack of imagination, affinity for solitude, difficulty displaying emotions) that are known to be sensitive to context (with whom?) and reference group (according to whom?) also appear in questionnaire-based assessments of autistic traits. Therefore, two experiments investigated the effects of specifying contexts and reference groups when assessing autistic traits in autistic and non-autistic participants. Experiment 1 (124 autistic and 124 non-autistic participants) demonstrated that context matters when assessing autistic traits (F(1,244) = 267.5, p

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  • Morton Ann Gernsbacher & Jennifer L Stevenson & Sebastian Dern, 2017. "Specificity, contexts, and reference groups matter when assessing autistic traits," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(2), pages 1-30, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0171931
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171931
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