Evidence of partner similarity for autistic traits, systemizing, and theory of mind via facial expressions

Gareth Richards; Simon Baron-Cohen; Varun Warrier; Ben Mellor; Jessica Davies; Laura Gee; John Galvin

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-11592-z

Evidence of partner similarity for autistic traits, systemizing, and theory of mind via facial expressions

Gareth Richards, Simon Baron-Cohen, Varun Warrier, Ben Mellor, Jessica Davies, Laura Gee, John Galvin

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Original language	English
Article number	8451
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11592-z https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11592-z
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 19 May 2022

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G.R. was supported by the School of Psychology, Newcastle University, and S.B.-C. received funding from the Wellcome Trust 214322\Z\18\Z. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. Further to this S.B.-C. received funding from Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under Grant Agreement No. 777394. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA and AUTISM SPEAKS, Autistica, SFARI. S.B.-C. also received funding from the Autism Research Trust, Autistica, the MRC and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. The research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care East of England at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. V.W. was funded by the Autism Research Trust, the Wellcome Trust, Templeton World Charity Inc., and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Cambridge, during the period of this work. The research was also supported by a Birmingham City University Small Development Grant (ML/ZM/GP; Ref: SDG 17-18-1.2) awarded to J.G. The views expressed are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the NIHR, NHS, Department of Health and Social Care, or the other funders. The authors thank each of the participants for making the research possible, as well as Robin Dunbar who provided feedback on an early version of the manuscript. Preliminary findings were presented by Richards et al.96(see Study 1) on June 29th, 2021, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association.

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Assortative mating; Autism; Autistic traits; Embedded Figures Task; Empathizing; Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test; Sex differences; Systemizing; Theory of Mind

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