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New 🔥 double empathy paper just dropped (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by e_chao@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world

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From everything I've seen online, "Attraction Through Similarity in Autistic Traits: A Group Communication Study Using the Social Relations Model and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Hyperscanning" is fire. Does anyone have access to the PDF through their institution who would be willing to share? It's not on Sci-Hub yet.

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[–] The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Write to the author, many are happy to share their work. The fees paid to the publisher generally don't go to the author anyway.

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[–] e_chao@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 5 months ago

@in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social already posted it

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