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TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing it their way
T2 - evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see
AU - Samson, Dana
AU - Apperly, Ian A.
AU - Braithwaite, Jason J
AU - Andrews, Benjamin J.
AU - Bodley Scott, Sarah E.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - In a series of three visual perspective-taking experiments, we asked adult participants to judge their own or someone else's visual perspective in situations where both perspectives were either the same or different. We found that participants could not easily ignore what someone else saw when making self-perspective judgments. This was observed even when participants were only required to take their own perspective within the same block of trials (Experiment 2) or even within the entire experiment (Experiment 3), i.e. under conditions which gave participants a clear opportunity to adopt a strategy of ignoring the other person's irrelevant perspective. Under some circumstances, participants were also more efficient at judging the other person's perspective than at judging their own perspective. Collectively, these results suggest that adults make use of rapid and efficient processes to compute what other people can see.
AB - In a series of three visual perspective-taking experiments, we asked adult participants to judge their own or someone else's visual perspective in situations where both perspectives were either the same or different. We found that participants could not easily ignore what someone else saw when making self-perspective judgments. This was observed even when participants were only required to take their own perspective within the same block of trials (Experiment 2) or even within the entire experiment (Experiment 3), i.e. under conditions which gave participants a clear opportunity to adopt a strategy of ignoring the other person's irrelevant perspective. Under some circumstances, participants were also more efficient at judging the other person's perspective than at judging their own perspective. Collectively, these results suggest that adults make use of rapid and efficient processes to compute what other people can see.
KW - self
KW - theory of mind
KW - visual perspective taking
KW - social cognition
U2 - 10.1037/a0018729
DO - 10.1037/a0018729
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 1255
EP - 1266
JO - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
SN - 0096-1523
IS - 5
ER -