Skorinko Jeanine Lee McHugh, DiGiovanni Craig, Rondina Katherine, Tavares Amy, Spinney Jennifer, Kobeissi Mariam, Lacera Luisa Perez, Vega Daniel, Beatty Paul, John Melissa-Sue, Doyle Aidan
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Program, Social Science and Policy Studies Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States.
Penn State Health, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, CT, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 2;14:1014803. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1014803. eCollection 2023.
The current research aims to investigate whether perspective taking influences social tuning, or the alignment of one's self-views, explicit attitudes, and/or implicit attitudes with those of an interaction partner. In six different experiments, participants believed they would interact with a partner to complete a task. Prior to this ostensible interaction, participants were given a perspective taking mindset prime, or not, and information about their ostensible interaction partners views. Participants then completed attitude measures related to the partner's perceived views. Experiments 1a, 1b, and 2 examined whether perspective taking with an ostensible interaction partner who endorses gender traditional (or non-traditional) views align their self-views with this partner, including implicit self-views (Experiment 2). Experiments 3-5 investigated whether perspective taking leads to social tuning for egalitarian racial attitudes, including when the partner's expectations of how others will be and when the participant learns their ostensible IAT score at the beginning of the session. We predicted perspective takers would be more likely to social tune their explicit and implicit attitudes to the attitudes of their interaction partner than non-perspective takers. Across all experiments, perspective takers were more likely to social tune their self-views and explicit attitudes than non-perspective takers. However, social tuning never occurred for implicit attitudes. Thus, future research is needed to understand why perspective taking does not influence the tuning of implicit attitudes, but other motivations, like affiliative and epistemic, do.
当前的研究旨在探究采择他人观点是否会影响社会调适，即一个人的自我观念、显性态度和/或隐性态度与互动伙伴的观念、态度趋于一致。在六个不同的实验中，参与者认为他们会与一名伙伴互动以完成一项任务。在这场表面上的互动之前，参与者被给予或未被给予采择他人观点的思维定式启动信息，以及关于其表面上的互动伙伴观点的信息。然后，参与者完成了与伙伴的感知观点相关的态度测量。实验1a、1b和2考察了与支持性别传统（或非传统）观点的表面上的互动伙伴采择他人观点是否会使他们的自我观念与该伙伴保持一致，包括隐性自我观念（实验2）。实验3至5研究了采择他人观点是否会导致在平等主义种族态度上的社会调适，包括当伙伴对他人行为方式的期望以及当参与者在实验开始时得知其表面上的内隐联想测验分数的情况。我们预测，与非采择他人观点者相比，采择他人观点者更有可能在显性和隐性态度上进行社会调适，使其与互动伙伴的态度一致。在所有实验中，采择他人观点者比非采择他人观点者更有可能在自我观念和显性态度上进行社会调适。然而，隐性态度从未出现过社会调适的情况。因此，需要未来的研究来理解为什么采择他人观点不会影响隐性态度的调适，而其他动机，如亲和动机和认知动机却会。
