Simulated Contact and Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults: Effects of Gender of the Autistic Adult and Mediation by Intergroup Anxiety

CONCLUSION: These findings lend further support for imagined contact as a method to improve attitudes toward autistic individuals, identify intergroup anxiety as a mediator and begin to demonstrate some situations, such as imagining a female-identifying autistic individual, where imagined contact may not be effective in changing attitudes.PMID:38326492 | DOI:10.1007/s10803-023-06220-2
Source: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research