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Abstract：
Autistic people frequently experience negative judgements from non-autistic people, often fuelled by misconceptions that autistic people lack empathy. Understanding responses to negative social judgement among autistic people is crucial because of the potential negative impact on wellbeing and future interactions. We investigated the role of autistic traits, social anxiety, and depression on behavioural indices of social rejection in 20 autistic (AUT; 11 males) and 40 non-autistic (N-AUT; 21 males) university students. Participants completed the Social Judgement Task (SJT) where they predicted whether they were liked by another person, then received feedback on whether those evaluations were correct. Participants also completed an Age Judgement Task (AJT) where they estimated the age of the pictured person. The AUT group had lower positive expectation scores, meaning less tendency to predict being liked. Across the whole sample, higher social anxiety predicted greater tendency to anticipate rejection from others, not autistic traits. These findings suggest early experiences of rejection might lead to a negative self-bias in autistic people and emphasise the importance of using a transdiagnostic approach by showing that social anxiety rather than autistic traits is associated with expectation of social rejection.
摘要：
自闭症患者经常经历非自闭症患者的负面判断，常常被认为自闭症患者缺乏同理心的误解所助长。了解自闭症患者对负面社会判断的反应至关重要，因为这可能会对福祉和未来的互动产生负面影响。我们调查了自闭症特征的作用，社交焦虑,20名自闭症（AUT；11名男性）和40名非自闭症（N-AUT；21名男性）大学生的社会排斥行为指数和抑郁。参与者完成了社会判断任务（SJT），在那里他们预测他们是否被另一个人喜欢，然后收到关于这些评估是否正确的反馈。参与者还完成了年龄判断任务（AJT），在该任务中他们估计了照片中人物的年龄。AUT组的积极期望得分较低，意味着不太倾向于预测被喜欢。在整个样本中，更高的社交焦虑预示着更大的预期被他人拒绝的倾向，不是自闭症特征。这些发现表明，早期的排斥经历可能会导致自闭症患者的负面自我偏见，并通过表明社交焦虑而不是自闭症特征与对社交排斥的期望有关来强调使用诊断方法的重要性。
