Liu Manlu, Enns James T
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2024 Sep 25;15:1473498. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1473498. eCollection 2024.
An important aspect of any social interaction involves inferring other people's mental states, intentions, and their likely next actions, by way of facial expression, body posture, eye gaze, and limb movements. An actor's of actions during social interactions and the observer's of these actions are thus closely linked. In this review, we outline an action-observation methodology, which not only allows for separate analyses of production and perception, but also promotes the study of the dynamic interaction between these two sides of every social exchange. We review two lines of research that have benefited from its application. The first line focuses on individuals performing tasks alone and the observation of their actions by other individuals in order to make inferences about their attentional states. The second line of study focused on pairs of individuals performing collaborative tasks in naturalistic settings and the observation of these performances by other individuals. We offer several suggestions for how this methodology can be extended to improve on the limitations of the present studies, as well as some suggestions of how to use this methodology to venture into new territory. Our aim is to inspire future research applications of this methodology in order to advance our understanding of social action production and perception.
任何社交互动的一个重要方面都涉及通过面部表情、身体姿势、目光注视和肢体动作来推断他人的心理状态、意图以及他们可能的下一步行动。因此，在社交互动中，行为者的行为以及观察者对这些行为的感知紧密相连。在本综述中，我们概述了一种动作观察方法，该方法不仅允许对行为的产生和感知进行单独分析，还促进了对每一次社交交流中这两个方面之间动态互动的研究。我们回顾了受益于其应用的两条研究路线。第一条路线聚焦于独自执行任务的个体以及其他个体对其行为的观察，以便推断他们的注意力状态。第二条研究路线聚焦于在自然场景中执行协作任务的个体对以及其他个体对这些表现的观察。我们就如何扩展该方法以改善当前研究的局限性提出了若干建议，以及关于如何运用此方法开拓新领域的一些建议。我们的目的是激发该方法在未来研究中的应用，以增进我们对社会行为产生和感知的理解。
