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Keywords and synonyms: nonverbal communication, autism spectrum disorder, ASD, adults


  1. Search the key concept autism. This produces over 500k articles.
  2. Gather even more results by selecting the OR suggestions as you type. This yields an additional 100k articles.
  3. Add adults or adult or aged or elderly to narrow your search to 157,625 articles.
  4. Adding nonverbal communication searches within the above results and finds 13,867 articles.
  5. Add social cues or social interactions or behaviors to narrow results even further, producing 813 articles.
  6. On the left side of the screen under Limit to, select Peer Reviewed and limit by Publication Date (last ten years). This leaves 369 research articles published within the last decade.
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Kuschefski, M., Falter, W. C. M., Bente, G., Vogeley, K., & Georgescu, A. L. (2019). Inferring power and dominance from dyadic nonverbal interactions in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research12(3), 505–516. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2069