Reduced relationship-specific social touching and atypical association with emotional bonding in autistic adults.

Mol Autism · 2025 · PMC12107774 · PMID 40420226

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Wilcoxon rank sum tests (with FDR correction) on TIs revealed a significantly greater TI in TD participants than in ASD participants for all network members except children, female friends, and male strangers (pFDR < 0.05); the effect for female friends showed a trend toward significance ( p = 0.066).

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