Trys Loustau

What People With Autism Can Teach Us About Mental Resilience Researchers Trystan Loustau and Liane Young explore how autism can buffer against the negative impact of social comparisons.

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In this article, I discuss our work on how people with autism process social comparisons differently, often showing greater emotional resilience, and what we can learn from these insights to promote personal growth.

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Reduced Reporting of Social Comparison Emotions and Valuation of Group-Based Morals in Autistic People | Social Cognition People's moral values and social emotions play an important role in everyday interactions. We investigated moral values and social emotions in autistic people within in-person (N = 62) and online (N =...

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💡New Paper in Social Cognition!💡

Autistic participants report:
🔹 Lower endorsement of binding values (e.g., loyalty)
🔹 No difference in individualizing values (e.g., care, fairness)
🔹 Lower levels of social comparison emotions (e.g., envy).

📄 Link: doi.org/10.1521/soco.2…