Assessing the effectiveness of multi-session online emotion recognition training in autistic adults

This online experimental study examined the effect of our emotion recognition training on emotion recognition in a sample of self-identified autistic adults (N=184). The study took place online and participants were recruited via the online recruitment platform Prolific (https://www.prolific.co/) and data collected via Gorilla, the online experiment builder (http://www.gorilla.sc/). Participants were randomised to one of two groups, with one group completing the emotion recognition task and the other completing a control task. Participants completed 4 sessions with an additional follow-up session 2 weeks later. We examined whether there were group differences in emotion recognition post-training as well as examining effects on social skills measures and a generalisability task. This study was pre-registered (https://osf.io/jszw7).