University of Tennessee, USA.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2018 Oct;23:93-97. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.12.007. Epub 2017 Dec 29.
I review the recent literature on shared attention, instances in which one's personal perspective is also another's. As described by Shteynberg [6], shared attention involves the activation of a psychological perspective that is personal and plural and irreducibly collective-a perspective in which the world is experienced from 'our attention'. When shared attention is perceived, information under shared attention receives deeper cognitive processing. By updating mutual knowledge, shared attention facilitates communication and, quite possibly, the creation of shared attitudes and beliefs. In this review, I focus on the last 5 years of empirical work detailing the cognitive and affective consequences of shared attention. I also highlight empirical work on the relevance of shared attention to pragmatically important challenges, such as the polarizing effects of social and mass media consumption, as well as the cognitive mechanisms behind autism-like traits. In all, the findings underscore the possibility that shared attention is a basic psychological building block of human sociality-a capacity to act collectively with others who share one's reality.
我回顾了近期关于共同注意的文献，即一个人的个人视角也是另一个人的视角的情况。正如 Shteynberg[6]所描述的，共同注意涉及到一种心理视角的激活，这种视角是个人的、复数的和不可还原的集体的——一种从“我们的注意力”中体验世界的视角。当共同注意被感知到时，共同注意下的信息会受到更深层次的认知处理。通过更新共同知识，共同注意促进了交流，并且很可能促进了共同态度和信念的形成。在这篇综述中，我重点关注了过去 5 年详细描述共同注意的认知和情感后果的实证工作。我还强调了共同注意对具有实际重要性的挑战的实证工作，例如社交和大众媒体消费的极化效应，以及自闭症特征背后的认知机制。总之，这些发现强调了共同注意是人类社会性的基本心理基石的可能性——一种与具有共同现实的他人集体行动的能力。
