Table 3.

Results from repeated-measures ANCOVAs with post-hoc tests for all social cognition tasks

	F	df	p	Post-hoc tests	Schizophrenia	HFA	Control
Point-Light					0.764a	0.787a	0.847b
Valence	0.018	1, 111	0.894
Group	5.98	2, 111	0.003
Valence×group	2.18	2, 111	0.117
Movie Stills no face
Emotion	0.309	2, 109	0.735	Sadc	0.531a	0.544a	0.677b
Group	1.197	2, 110	0.306	Afraidc	0.475	0.534a	0.420b
Emotion×group	4.362	4, 218	0.002	Angry	0.625	0.587	0.671
Movie Stills w/face
Emotion	0.401	2, 109	0.670	Sadc	0.624a	0.679	0.780b
Group	3.36	2, 110	0.039	Afraid	0.604	0.624	0.606
Emotion×group	2.73	4, 218	0.030	Angryc	0.636	0.551a	0.678b
Trustworthiness
Face trustworthy	19.1	1, 115	<0.001	Trustworthy	1.34	1.38	1.36
Group	1.44	2, 115	0.241	Untrustworthyc	−0.795a	−0.778a	−1.26b
Face trust×group	2.85	2, 115	0.062
Eyes test
Group	2.03	2, 113	0.136		61.75	61.15	66.09

HFA, High-functioning autism; df, degrees of freedom.

For main analyses, significant effects are in bold face, effects approaching significance are italicized.

^aSignificantly different from ^b.

^cSignificant group effect for post-hoc test.