Freundlieb Martin, Kovács Ágnes M, Sebanz Natalie
Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2016 Mar;42(3):401-12. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000153. Epub 2015 Oct 19.
Perspective-taking is a key component of social interactions. However, there is an ongoing controversy about whether, when and how instances of spontaneous visuospatial perspective-taking occur. The aim of this study was to investigate the underlying factors as well as boundary conditions that characterize the spontaneous adoption of another person's visuospatial perspective (VSP) during social interactions. We used a novel paradigm, in which a participant and a confederate performed a simple stimulus-response (SR) compatibility task sitting at a 90° angle to each other. In this set-up, participants would show a spatial compatibility effect only if they adopted the confederate's VSP. In a series of 5 experiments we found that participants reliably adopted the VSP of the confederate, as long as he was perceived as an intentionally acting agent. Our results therefore show that humans are able to spontaneously adopt the differing VSP of another agent and that there is a tight link between perspective-taking and performing actions together. The results suggest that spontaneous VSP-taking can effectively facilitate and speed up spatial alignment processes accruing from dynamic interactions in multiagent environments.
采择他人观点是社会互动的关键组成部分。然而，关于自发的视觉空间采择观点的情况是否、何时以及如何发生，目前仍存在争议。本研究的目的是调查在社会互动过程中，表征自发采纳他人视觉空间观点（VSP）的潜在因素以及边界条件。我们使用了一种新颖的范式，其中一名参与者和一名同盟者以90°角相对而坐，执行简单的刺激-反应（SR）兼容性任务。在这种设置下，只有当参与者采纳同盟者的VSP时，才会表现出空间兼容性效应。在一系列5个实验中，我们发现只要同盟者被视为有意行动的主体，参与者就会可靠地采纳其VSP。因此，我们的结果表明，人类能够自发采纳另一个主体不同的VSP，并且采择观点与共同执行行动之间存在紧密联系。结果表明，自发的VSP采择可以有效地促进和加速多主体环境中动态互动产生的空间对齐过程。
