Manipulating avatar age and gender in level-2 visual perspective taking.

ABSTRACT: Visual perspective taking (VPT) represents how the world appears from another person's position. The age, group status and emotional displays of the other person have been shown to affect task performance, but tasks often confound social and spatial outcome measures by embedding perspective taking in explicitly social contexts or theory-of-mind reasoning. Furthermore, while previous research has suggested that visual perspective taking may be impacted by avatar characteristics, it is unknown whether this is driven by general group processing or a specific deficit in mentalizing about outgroups, for example, children. Therefore, using a minimally social task (i.e., the task was not communicative, and acknowledging the "mind" of the avatar was not necessitated), we examined whether avatar ag

SUBMITTER: Ford B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482764 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature