University catholique de Louvain, Belgium; University of Birmingham, UK.
University of Birmingham, UK.
Cognition. 2016 May;150:43-52. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.01.014. Epub 2016 Feb 2.
Thinking about how other people represent objects in the world around them is thought to require deliberate effort. In recent years, interactive "joint action" paradigms have shown how social context can affect our cognitive processing. We tested whether people would represent their partner's point of view in a simple team game. Participants played a game in which they had to judge the magnitude of a number either sat alone, or opposite a partner. Importantly they were never asked to judge their partner's point of view. Remarkably, when playing the game as a team, people were better when their partner happened to share their view of the number, such as when seeing a number 8, than when their partner viewed the number to be different, such as when seeing a number 6 that looked like a number 9 to their partner. In two further experiments, we identified the conditions under which the effect was present. Experiment two showed that the effect was only present after observing the prior involvement of one's partner in the task. Experiment 3, showed that the aspect of the stimulus (its magnitude) that participants were sensitive to did not need to be the aspect of the stimulus to which their partner was paying attention.
人们认为，思考他人如何在周围世界中表示物体需要刻意的努力。近年来，互动的“联合行动”范式表明了社会环境如何影响我们的认知加工。我们测试了人们在简单的团队游戏中是否会代表他们的伙伴的观点。参与者玩了一个游戏，他们必须独自或与伙伴相对地判断一个数字的大小。重要的是，他们从未被要求判断他们伙伴的观点。值得注意的是，当人们作为一个团队玩游戏时，如果他们的伙伴碰巧与他们对数字的看法一致，例如看到数字 8，那么他们会表现得更好，而当他们的伙伴看到的数字与他们不同时，例如当他们的伙伴看到一个看起来像数字 9 的数字 6 时。在另外两个实验中，我们确定了存在这种效应的条件。实验二表明，只有在观察到伙伴之前参与任务后，这种效应才会出现。实验 3 表明，参与者敏感的刺激方面（其大小）不一定是他们的伙伴关注的刺激方面。
