Group membership affects spontaneous mental representation: failure to represent the out-group in a joint action task.

ABSTRACT: Predicting others' actions is crucial to successful social interaction. Previous research on joint action, based on a reaction-time paradigm called the Joint Simon Task, suggests that successful joint action stems from the simultaneous representation of the self with the other. Performance on this task provides a read-out of the degree of intrusion from a partner that participants experience from acting jointly compared to acting alone, which in turn is a measure of the degree to which participants mentally represent their co-actors during the task. To investigate the role of perceived group membership in this type of joint action and its influence on the representation of others, we first subjected participants to a minimal group paradigm while manipulating differences in social competiti

SUBMITTER: McClung JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3835841 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature