Autistic People Do Enhance Their Selves

Gernsbacher, Morton Ann; Stevenson, Jennifer L.; Dern, Sebastian

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Autistic People Do Enhance Their Selves

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Gernsbacher, Morton Ann, Stevenson, Jennifer L., Dern, Sebastian·2020·Social Psychological and Personality Science

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We investigated whether autistic people are less prone to self-enhance (i.e., portray themselves in socially desirable ways). Autistic ( N = 130) and non-autistic ( N = 130) participants first responded to social desirability items using the standard instruction to endorse each item as true or false about themselves. Then, all participants read an explanation of what social desirability items measure before responding again to the social desirability items. Self-enhancement was operationalized as participants endorsing more social desirability items before learning the explanation than after. All participants endorsed significantly more social desirability items before learning the explanation than after, F subjects (1, 258) = 57.73, p < .001, [Formula: see text] = .183; F items (1, 34) = 43.04, p < .001, [Formula: see text] = .559). However, autistic and non-autistic participants did not significantly differ in how many items they endorsed, either before or after reading the explanation, indicating that autistic people are as susceptible to social desirability and self-enhancement as non-autistic people are. Our results challenge the claim that autistic people are immune to reputation management.

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Authors: Gernsbacher, M. A., Stevenson, J. L., & Dern, S.
Affiliations: University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Ursinus College (US)
Maastricht University (NL)
Corresponding author: Gernsbacher, Morton Ann
ORCID: Gernsbacher, Morton Ann
Stevenson, Jennifer L.
Venue: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2019-09-02
Volume: 11
Issue: 5
Pages: 605-615
ISSN: 1948-5506 (ISSN-L)
1948-5514
DOI: 10.1177/1948550619865057
PMC: PMC7310997
OpenAlex: W2972121174
Cited by: 21
References: 79
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4
FWCI: 1.60
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Social Psychological and Personality Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders: Vilas Trust
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: autism spectrum disorder, self-enhancement, social desirability bias, reputation management, self-presentation, autistic people

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