McGuinness, Lauren, Abbot-Smith, Kirsten, Gambi, Chiara (2024) Seeing it in others versus doing it yourself: Social desirability judgements and conversation production data from autistic and non-autistic children. Autism, . ISSN 1362-3613. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:107424)
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Abstract
On average, groups of autistic individuals are more likely than groups of non-autistic individuals to exhibit unconventional conversational behaviours. We examined autistic and non-autistic children’s social impressions of unconventional responding, as well as actual conversational behaviours in the same participants. Across two studies, 36 autistic and 36 non-autistic matched 9-13-year-olds listened to conversational vignettes which manipulated the relevance and timing of responses produced by the speaker. They then rated the speaker’s social desirability. We also measured the content and latency of the same children’s conversational responses. Autistic children aligned with their non-autistic peers in indicating that they were less likely to befriend, or enjoy interacting with, a speaker who provided off-topic or delayed responses. However, the same autistic children provided more off-topic, and fewer topic-continuing, conversational responses than their non-autistic counterparts. These findings suggest that displaying unconventional conversational behaviours may act as a barrier to friendship or inclusion for autistic children, even when socialising with other autistic peers.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | autism; children; conversation; off-topic; response latencies; social desirability; first impressions |
Subjects: |
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF41 Psychology and philosophy |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council (https://ror.org/03n0ht308) |
Depositing User: | Kirsten Abbot-Smith |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2024 16:21 UTC |
Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 08:34 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/107424 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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