Jassim, Nazia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9761-7784
McCoy, Brónagh https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4738-6723
Yip, Esther Wing-Chi https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1772-3392
Allison, Carrie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-2090
Baron-Cohen, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9217-2544
Lawson, Rebecca P. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1228-1244
Funding for this research was provided by:
Newnham College April Trust PhD studentship
Wellcome Trust (206691/Z/17/Z, 214322\Z\18\Z, 206691/Z/17/Z)
Autistica (7265, 7265)
Autism Centre of Excellence
Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (777394)
SFARI
Templeton World Charitable Fund
NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
MRC
Article History
Received: 19 July 2024
Accepted: 7 March 2025
First Online: 26 March 2025
Declarations
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: This research was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Psychology Research Ethics Committee at the University of Cambridge (PREC. 2019.098).
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available in the OSF repository, . Plans to replicate Guan and Firestone (2020) and investigate similar research questions in autistic and non-autistic adults were pre-registered ().
: One of the authors, SBC, was previously Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Autism. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.