The effect of diagnostic information, autism knowledge, contact and autism stigma on people's ability to read autistic others
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October 3, 2025
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This study followed on from research by Sheppard et al. (2016) in which we found that non-autistic people are rather poor at reading the behaviour of autistic people. We investigated whether non-autistic people’s ability to read autistic individuals is influenced by providing diagnostic information, and by a person’s knowledge about autism, prior contact with autistic people, and autism stigma. Participants (N=128) viewed videos of autistic and non-autistic individuals reacting to events enacted by the researcher and inferred what event had taken place. Videos were presented either with no diagnostic information, a correct diagnostic label, or incorrect label (autistic individuals labelled as non-autistic and vice versa). Autism knowledge, contact with autistic people, and autism stigma were measured by questionnaires.
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University of Nottingham, UK Campus
Data type
Questionnaire responses and experimental task performance.
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Data collection method
Experiment and questionnaires using PsychoPy and Qualtrics.
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English
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The University of Nottingham
Date Issued
October 3, 2025
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