Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Plan of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM), Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Behav Res Methods. 2020 Oct;52(5):1929-1938. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01378-4.
The study of real-time social interaction provides ecologically valid insight into social behavior. The objective of the current research is to experimentally assess real-time social contingency detection in an adolescent population, using a shortened version of the Perceptual Crossing Experiment (PCE). Pairs of 148 adolescents aged between 12 and 19 were instructed to find each other in a virtual environment interspersed with other objects by interacting with each other using tactile feedback only. Across six rounds, participants demonstrated increasing accuracy in social contingency detection, which was associated with increasing subjective experience of the mutual interaction. Subjective experience was highest in rounds when both participants were simultaneously accurate in detecting each other's presence. The six-round version yielded comparable social contingency detection outcome measures to a ten-round version of the task. The shortened six-round version of the PCE has therefore enabled us to extend the previous findings on social contingency detection in adults to an adolescent population, enabling implementation in prospective research designs to assess the development of social contingency detection over time.
实时社交互动研究为社交行为提供了具有生态效度的见解。本研究的目的是使用简化版的感知交叉实验（PCE），在青少年群体中实验评估实时社交关联检测。12 至 19 岁的青少年两两一组，通过仅使用触觉反馈相互作用，在虚拟环境中寻找彼此，环境中穿插着其他物体。在六轮中，参与者在社会关联检测方面表现出越来越高的准确性，这与他们对相互作用的主观体验增加有关。当两名参与者同时准确地检测到对方的存在时，主观体验最高。六轮版本的任务与十轮版本的任务产生了可比的社会关联检测结果测量。因此，简化的六轮版 PCE 使我们能够将之前关于成年人社交关联检测的发现扩展到青少年群体，从而能够在前瞻性研究设计中实施，以评估随着时间的推移社交关联检测的发展。
