Results A 2 × 2 within‐subject ANOVA with two factors (JA and Emotion) and participant gender as a between‐subject control variable showed a trend toward significance for a JA by Emotion interaction ( F (1, 48) = 3.424, P = 0.07).
In a recent study investigating the effects of gaze direction on the mimicry of hand actions, Vivanti and Dissanayake [ 2014 ] found that while Typically Developing (TD) individuals show greater mimicry of hand actions preceded by direct compared with averted gaze [see also: Wang et al., 2010 ], this difference was not seen in a group of ASC individuals, who instead showed a trend for greater attention to faces with averted compared to direct gaze.
The interaction between JA and SFM showed a marginal trend for the Zygomaticus Major response to happy faces to be higher in the NoJA condition.