The role of interpersonal synchrony in forming impressions of autistic and non-autistic adults.

ABSTRACT: When people meet, they almost instantaneously form an impression of each other. First impressions of character traits and rapport are less favourable when people with autism spectrum condition (ASC) are judged compared to non-autistic people. Little is known about the behavioural differences that drive these altered impressions. In the present study, we investigated the influence of interpersonal synchrony on impression formation of autistic and non-autistic people. Specifically, we used lagged cross-correlations to assess how much each interactant's motion energy, a measure which can be determined from video recordings, influenced the other interactant's motion energy. In short, silent clips of dyadic conversations, we asked non-autistic participants to rate their impression of one of the

SUBMITTER: Plank IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507088 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature