Non-autistic adults propensity to dehumanize based on autism research exerpts and whether dehumanization predicts moral disengagement
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About the autistic author markerBotha, M. (2025). Non-autistic adults propensity to dehumanize based on autism research exerpts and whether dehumanization predicts moral disengagement [Registration]. OSF Registries. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/8g2bk
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Research about autistic people can often be ableist. It can often dehumanize, objectify, and stigmatize autistic people. The autistic rights movement and neurodiversity movement have seen activists, advocates, and academics working towards a more equitable society for autistic people, including by challenging this ableism. Instead of providing dehumanizing or objectifying accounts of autistic people, neurodiversity advocates centre autistic peoples experiences and try to describe autism in non-ableist ways. Thus, the aim of this study is to replicated an earlier study of whether vignettes based in dehumanizing descriptions of autistic people from autism research results in higher dehumanization of autistic people compared to more neutral descriptions. The vignettes used were created from peer reviewed research, with mentions to autism redacted so as to prevent previous bias. Further, it will test whether this dehumanization primes non-autistic people to experience contextual moral disengagement.
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