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The relationship between interpersonal distance preference and estimation accuracy in autism.

Nur Givon-Benjio¹, Tom Marx¹, Marissa Hartston²

¹School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

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Autistic individuals show greater variability in comfortable interpersonal distances and distance estimation. Biases in judging distance, like underestimating or overestimating, are linked to preferences for being too close or too far away.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Neuroscience
Social Interaction

Background:

Individuals maintain comfortable interpersonal distances for social equilibrium.
Previous research on autistic individuals' interpersonal distance preferences and distance estimation abilities has produced conflicting results.
The relationship between distance estimation and preference in autistic individuals remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate interpersonal distance preferences and estimations in autistic individuals.
To examine the correlation between distance estimation accuracy and distance preference.
To understand the source of inconsistencies in prior research on autistic social distance.

Main Methods:

Measured interpersonal distance preferences and distance estimations in autistic participants.
Analyzed the correlation between preference and estimation bias.
Assessed individual differences in both preference and estimation.

Main Results:

Autistic individuals exhibited greater variance in both interpersonal distance preferences and distance estimation accuracy compared to neurotypical individuals.
A significant association was found between distance estimation bias and interpersonal distance preference in autistic individuals.
Underestimation bias correlated with a preference for closer proximity, while overestimation bias correlated with a preference for greater distance.

Conclusions:

Greater individual differences among autistic people contribute to the variability observed in previous studies.
Biases in estimating interpersonal distance are linked to socially atypical distance preferences in autistic individuals.
These findings suggest that altered distance perception may underlie challenges in maintaining appropriate social distances for autistic people.