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Reduced social attention towards negative images in autism

2026-02-02

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<p>Reduced visual attention to social stimuli in autism is often attributed to diminished social reward sensitivity. However, most evidence comes from research using positive content (e.g. smiling faces), making it unclear whether reduced social attention generalises to negative social scenes. If group differences persist when social stimuli are negative, this would challenge purely reward-based explanations. We t...

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Literature Corpus work: 6494ac27-dd4b-5f9c-b710-315e04a497da
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6pxt5_v1

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