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Two sources of bias affecting the evaluation of autistic communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2019

Pearl Han Li Open the ORCID record for Pearl Han Li [Opens in a new window]  and
Melissa Koenig
Pearl Han Li
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55436. lixx5592@umn.edumkoenig@umn.eduhttp://www.cehd.umn.edu/icd/people/faculty/cpsy/koenig.html
Melissa Koenig
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55436. lixx5592@umn.edumkoenig@umn.eduhttp://www.cehd.umn.edu/icd/people/faculty/cpsy/koenig.html
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Abstract

We support Jaswal & Akhtar's interrogation of social motivational accounts of autism and discuss two sources of bias that contribute to how others construe autistic people's communications: (1) an experience-based bias that limits our ability to discern the speaker's action as communicative and (2) a prejudice against the credibility of certain speakers that limits a listener's willingness to believe their testimony.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e98
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