Readings

Where the course's claims come from, week by week, with a record of what was checked.

The protocol has no specification, so nobody can hand you one. What exists is a scattered literature --- linguistics, psychology, sociology, and autistic researchers writing about their own experience --- that documents pieces of it. This list is the pieces the course uses. Each entry says why it is here and records what it was checked against.

Week 1: Introduction + The Opening Handshake

Schegloff, E. A. (1968). Sequencing in Conversational Openings. American Anthropologist, 70(6), 1075–1095.
Coupland, J., Coupland, N. & Robinson, J. D. (1992). “How are you?”: Negotiating phatic communion. Language in Society, 21(2), 207–230.
Duranti, A. (1997). Universal and culture-specific properties of greetings. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(1), 63–97.
Stivers, T. & Rossano, F. (2010). Mobilizing response. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43(1), 3–31.

Week 2: The Undocumented Majority + Field Notes Without Pathology

Garfinkel, H. (1964). Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities. Social Problems, 11(3), 225–250.
Nisbett, R. E. & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84(3), 231–259.
Hinds, P. J. (1999). The curse of expertise: The effects of expertise and debiasing methods on prediction of novice performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5(2), 205–221.
Malle, B. F. (2006). The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution: A (surprising) meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(6), 895–919.
Milton, D. E. M. (2012). On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’. Disability & Society, 27(6), 883–887.
Kapp, S. K., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Sherman, L. E. & Hutman, T. (2013). Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity. Developmental Psychology, 49(1), 59–71.
Sasson, N. J., Faso, D. J., Nugent, J., Lovell, S., Kennedy, D. P. & Grossman, R. B. (2017). Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments. Scientific Reports, 7, 40700.

Week 3: Payload and Envelope

Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and Conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts (pp. 41–58). Academic Press.
Keysar, B. & Henly, A. S. (2002). Speakers’ Overestimation of Their Effectiveness. Psychological Science, 13(3), 207–212.
Pinker, S., Nowak, M. A. & Lee, J. J. (2008). The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(3), 833–838.
Lee, J. J. & Pinker, S. (2010). Rationales for indirect speech: The theory of the strategic speaker. Psychological Review, 117(3), 785–807.
Chevallier, C., Wilson, D., Happé, F. & Noveck, I. (2010). Scalar inferences in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(9), 1104–1117.

Week 4: Latency and Turn-Taking

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A. & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language, 50(4), 696–735.
Stivers, T. et al. (2009). Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10587–10592.
Roberts, F., Margutti, P. & Takano, S. (2011). Judgments concerning the valence of inter-turn silence across speakers of American English, Italian, and Japanese. Discourse Processes, 48(5), 331–354.
Kendrick, K. H. (2015). The intersection of turn-taking and repair: the timing of other-initiations of repair in conversation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 250.
Kendrick, K. H. & Torreira, F. (2015). The Timing and Construction of Preference: A Quantitative Study. Discourse Processes, 52(4), 255–289.
Levinson, S. C. & Torreira, F. (2015). Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 731.

Week 5: Error Handling and Repair

Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G. & Sacks, H. (1977). The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation. Language, 53(2), 361–382.
Fehr, R., Gelfand, M. J. & Nag, M. (2010). The road to forgiveness: A meta-analytic synthesis of its situational and dispositional correlates. Psychological Bulletin, 136(5), 894–914.
Kirchhoff, J., Wagner, U. & Strack, M. (2012). Apologies: Words of magic? The role of verbal components, anger reduction, and offence severity. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18(2), 109–130.
Dingemanse, M., Torreira, F. & Enfield, N. J. (2013). Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items. PLoS ONE, 8(11), e78273.
Dingemanse, M. et al. (2015). Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0136100.
Lewicki, R. J., Polin, B. & Lount, R. B. (2016). An Exploration of the Structure of Effective Apologies. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 9(2), 177–196.

Week 6: Masking: Cost Accounting

Hochschild, A. R. (2012). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press (2012 edition).
Hull, L. et al. (2017). “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(8), 2519–2534.
Hull, L. et al. (2019). Development and validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(3), 819–833.
Cage, E. & Troxell-Whitman, Z. (2019). Understanding the Reasons, Contexts and Costs of Camouflaging for Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(5), 1899–1911.
Pearson, A. & Rose, K. (2021). A Conceptual Analysis of Autistic Masking: Understanding the Narrative of Stigma and the Illusion of Choice. Autism in Adulthood, 3(1), 52–60.
Bradley, L., Shaw, R., Baron-Cohen, S. & Cassidy, S. (2021). Autistic adults' experiences of camouflaging and its perceived impact on mental health. Autism in Adulthood, 3(4), 320–329.
O'Loghlen, J. J. & Lang, C. P. (2024). High Autistic Traits or Low Social Competence? Correlates of Social Camouflaging in Non-Autistic Adults. Autism in Adulthood, 6(1), 60–71.

Week 7: Emergency: Overload, Shutdown, Recovery

Sonnentag, S. & Fritz, C. (2007). The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12(3), 204–221.
Raymaker, D. M. et al. (2020). “Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout. Autism in Adulthood, 2(2), 132–143.
Higgins, J. M., Arnold, S. R. C., Weise, J., Pellicano, E. & Trollor, J. N. (2021). Defining autistic burnout through experts by lived experience: Grounded Delphi method investigating #AutisticBurnout. Autism, 25(8), 2356–2369.
Phung, J., Penner, M., Pirlot, C. & Welch, C. (2021). What I wish you knew: insights on burnout, inertia, meltdown, and shutdown from autistic youth. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 741421.
Strömberg, M., Liman, L., Bang, P. & Igelström, K. (2022). Experiences of sensory overload and communication barriers by autistic adults in health care settings. Autism in Adulthood, 4(1), 66–75.

Week 8: Institutional Protocols

Flynn, F. J. & Lake, V. K. B. (2008). If you need help, just ask: Underestimating compliance with direct requests for help. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 128–143.
Stephens, K. K., Houser, M. L. & Cowan, R. L. (2009). R U Able to Meat Me: The Impact of Students’ Overly Casual Email Messages to Instructors. Communication Education, 58(3), 303–326.
Brooks, A. W., Gino, F. & Schweitzer, M. E. (2015). Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence. Management Science, 61(6), 1421–1435.
Gurbuz, E., Hanley, M. & Riby, D. M. (2019). University Students with Autism: The Social and Academic Experiences of University in the UK. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2), 617–631.
Davies, J. & Bagnall, C. L. (2024). “A good transition is just key”: the views and experiences of disability support staff in supporting autistic students transition to university. Autism in Adulthood, 7(2), 155–170.
Martino, D., Brantley, A. & Scarpa, A. (2025). The role of self-advocacy and self-determination in positive adjustment for autistic adolescents and young adults: a mini-review. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 4, 1542543.

Week 9: Escalation Rates

Collins, N. L. & Miller, L. C. (1994). Self-disclosure and liking: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 116(3), 457–475.
Aron, A., Melinat, E., Aron, E. N., Vallone, R. D. & Bator, R. J. (1997). The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23(4), 363–377.
Laurenceau, J.-P., Feldman Barrett, L. & Pietromonaco, P. R. (1998). Intimacy as an interpersonal process: The importance of self-disclosure, partner disclosure, and perceived partner responsiveness in interpersonal exchanges. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1238–1251.
Sprecher, S., Treger, S. & Wondra, J. D. (2013). Effects of self-disclosure role on liking, closeness, and other impressions in get-acquainted interactions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(4), 497–514.
Huang, K., Yeomans, M., Brooks, A. W., Minson, J. & Gino, F. (2017). It doesn’t hurt to ask: Question-asking increases liking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(3), 430–452.
Hall, J. A. (2019). How many hours does it take to make a friend? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(4), 1278–1296.

Week 10: Disclosure

Corrigan, P. W. & Matthews, A. K. (2003). Stigma and disclosure: Implications for coming out of the closet. Journal of Mental Health, 12(3), 235–248.
Quinn, D. M. & Chaudoir, S. R. (2009). Living with a concealable stigmatized identity: The impact of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, and cultural stigma on psychological distress and health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(4), 634–651.
Chaudoir, S. R. & Fisher, J. D. (2010). The disclosure processes model: Understanding disclosure decision making and postdisclosure outcomes among people living with a concealable stigmatized identity. Psychological Bulletin, 136(2), 236–256.
Sasson, N. J. & Morrison, K. E. (2019). First impressions of adults with autism improve with diagnostic disclosure and increased autism knowledge of peers. Autism, 23(1), 50–59.
Thompson-Hodgetts, S., Labonte, C., Mazumder, R. & Phelan, S. (2020). Helpful or harmful? A scoping review of perceptions and outcomes of autism diagnostic disclosure to others. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 77, 101598.
Romualdez, A. M., Heasman, B., Walker, Z., Davies, J. & Remington, A. (2021). “People Might Understand Me Better”: Diagnostic Disclosure Experiences of Autistic Individuals in the Workplace. Autism in Adulthood, 3(2), 157–167.

Week 11: Interoperation, Not Conversion

Sheppard, E., Pillai, D., Wong, G. T.-L., Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2016). How Easy is it to Read the Minds of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(4), 1247–1254.
DeBrabander, K. M., Morrison, K. E., Jones, D. R., Faso, D. J., Chmielewski, M. & Sasson, N. J. (2019). Do First Impressions of Autistic Adults Differ Between Autistic and Nonautistic Observers? Autism in Adulthood, 1(4), 250–257.
Alkhaldi, R. S., Sheppard, E. & Mitchell, P. (2019). Is There a Link Between Autistic People Being Perceived Unfavorably and Having a Mind That Is Difficult to Read? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(10), 3973–3982.
Crompton, C. J., Hallett, S., Ropar, D., Flynn, E. & Fletcher-Watson, S. (2020). ‘I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people’: A thematic analysis of autistic adults’ relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family. Autism, 24(6), 1438–1448.
Crompton, C. J., Ropar, D., Evans-Williams, C. V. M., Flynn, E. G. & Fletcher-Watson, S. (2020). Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective. Autism, 24(7), 1704–1712.
Morrison, K. E., DeBrabander, K. M., Jones, D. R., Faso, D. J., Ackerman, R. A. & Sasson, N. J. (2020). Outcomes of real-world social interaction for autistic adults paired with autistic compared to typically developing partners. Autism, 24(5), 1067–1080.
Mitchell, P., Sheppard, E. & Cassidy, S. (2021). Autism and the double empathy problem: Implications for development and mental health. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 1–18.
Rifai, O. M., Fletcher-Watson, S., Jiménez-Sánchez, L. & Crompton, C. J. (2022). Investigating Markers of Rapport in Autistic and Nonautistic Interactions. Autism in Adulthood, 4(1), 3–11.

Week 12: Advanced Topics and Further Study

Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H. & Anderson, C. (2003). Power, approach, and inhibition. Psychological Review, 110(2), 265–284.
Moskowitz, D. S. (2004). Does Elevated Power Lead to Approach and Reduced Power to Inhibition? Comment on Keltner, Gruenfeld, and Anderson (2003). Psychological Review, 111(3), 808–811.
Cialdini, R. B. & Goldstein, N. J. (2004). Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 591–621.
Hall, J. A., Carter, S., Cody, M. J. & Albright, J. M. (2010). Individual Differences in the Communication of Romantic Interest: Development of the Flirting Styles Inventory. Communication Quarterly, 58(4), 365–393.
Sala, G., Hooley, M. & Stokes, M. A. (2020). Romantic Intimacy in Autism: A Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(11), 4133–4147.