Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
Cogn Process. 2024 Aug;25(3):513-519. doi: 10.1007/s10339-024-01187-z. Epub 2024 Apr 16.
Individuals high in autistic traits can have difficulties with social interactions which may stem from difficulties with mentalizing abilities, yet findings from research investigating anthropomorphism of non-human objects in high trait individuals are inconsistent. Measuring emotions and attributes of front-facing vehicles, individuals scoring high versus low on the AQ-10 were compared for ratings of angry-happy, hostile-friendly, masculine-feminine, and submissive-dominant, as a function of vehicle size (large versus small). Our results showed that participants perceived large vehicles as more angry, hostile, masculine, and dominant than small vehicles, with no significant difference in ratings between high and low AQ-10 scorers. The current findings support previous research reporting high autistic trait individuals' intact object processing. Our novel findings also suggest high autistic trait individuals' anthropomorphizing abilities are comparable to those found in low autistic trait individuals.
高自闭症特质个体在社交互动中可能会遇到困难，这可能源于心理理论能力的困难，但对高特质个体对非人类物体进行拟人化的研究结果并不一致。在这项研究中，我们比较了在 AQ-10 上得分高和得分低的个体对正前方车辆的情绪和属性的评价，评价指标包括愤怒-快乐、敌对-友好、男性化-女性化和顺从-支配，这取决于车辆大小（大与小）。我们的研究结果表明，参与者认为大型车辆比小型车辆更愤怒、更具敌意、更男性化、更具支配性，而在高 AQ-10 得分者和低 AQ-10 得分者之间，评价没有显著差异。目前的研究结果支持了之前的研究报告，即高自闭症特质个体的物体加工能力完整。我们的新发现还表明，高自闭症特质个体的拟人化能力与低自闭症特质个体相当。
