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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why is scientific research paywalled? That shit pissed me off when I was in school.

Edit: Just wanted to add that people are so goddamn stupid partially because they have free unlimited access to propaganda, rage-bait, and fake news on social media while real news and scientific papers are behind a paywall. Let people read, people are too stupid and need to read.