. 2025 Oct 24;7(5):581–593. doi: 10.1089/aut.2023.0199

Table 1.

Correlations Between Positive, Neutral, Negative Affect and First-Impression, and Success Ratings Across Autistic (A) and Non-Autistic (NA) Groups and Contexts

	Job			Interest
	Autism	NA	A + NA	Autism	NA	A + NA
Positive Affect
Awkward	0.225	−0.006	−0.139	−0.005	−0.035	−0.272
Attractive	−0.111	0.150	0.209	−0.055	0.279	0.328^*
Trustworthy	0.121	0.017	0.169	0.135	−0.280	0.069
Dominant	0.237	0.453^*	0.259	−0.136	0.169	0.024
Likeable	0.129	0.225	0.295	0.246	0.121	0.357^*
Intelligent	−0.137	−0.013	0.030	−0.164	−0.032	0.009
Live near	0.135	0.376	0.300	−0.393	0.163	0.096
Hang out	−0.003	0.205	0.269	0.012	0.222	0.339^*
Sit near	0.075	0.313	0.275	−0.334	−0.008	0.120
Conversation	0.051	0.244	0.289	0.018	0.237	0.324^*
Success Rating	0.349	0.216	0.166	−0.171	−0.075	−0.253
Neutral Affect
Awkward	−0.289	−0.025	−0.045	0.105	0.083	0.261
Attractive	0.385	−0.085	0.045	0.110	−0.281	−0.265
Trustworthy	0.341	0.142	0.193	−0.168	0.298	−0.048
Dominant	0.224	−0.217	0.083	0.304	−0.079	0.097
Likeable	0.358	−0.066	0.077	−0.270	−0.131	−0.322^*
Intelligent	0.401	0.123	0.231	0.179	0.073	0.037
Live near	0.398	−0.185	0.122	0.358	−0.193	−0.075
Hang out	0.518^*	−0.085	0.085	0.064	−0.234	−0.268
Sit near	0.473^*	−0.154	0.145	0.330	−0.010	−0.072
Conversation	0.444^*	−0.081	0.083	0.005	−0.244	−0.270
Success Rating	−0.086	−0.071	0.113	0.096	0.060	0.262
Negative Affect
Awkward	0.158	0.083	0.265	−0.200	−0.220	0.017
Attractive	−0.381	−0.155	−0.363^*	−0.115	0.064	−0.172
Trustworthy	−0.533^*	−0.425	−0.541^**	0.079	−0.137	−0.059
Dominant	−0.491^*	−0.576^**	−0.493^**	−0.348	−0.370	−0.359^*
Likeable	−0.561^**	−0.400	−0.532^**	0.071	0.070	−0.088
Intelligent	−0.376	−0.298	−0.408^**	−0.045	−0.191	−0.136
Live near	−0.616^**	−0.465^*	−0.610^**	0.033	0.190	−0.057
Hang out	−0.642^**	−0.295	−0.509^**	−0.151	0.094	−0.194
Sit near	−0.656^**	−0.388	−0.613^**	−0.023	0.080	−0.134
Conversation	−0.599^**	−0.408	−0.533^**	−0.044	0.077	−0.144
Success Rating	−0.358	−0.402	−0.421^**	0.159	0.081	−0.016

^{^*}

Correlation is significant at a = 0.05 level (2-tailed).

^{^**}

Correlation is significant at a = 0.01 level (2-tailed).

No correction for multiple comparisons.