Altercentric intrusions from multiple perspectives: beyond dyads.

ABSTRACT: Recent findings suggest that in dyadic contexts observers rapidly and involuntarily process the visual perspective of others and cannot easily resist interference from their viewpoint. To investigate whether spontaneous perspective taking extends beyond dyads, we employed a novel visual perspective task that required participants to select between multiple competing perspectives. Participants were asked to judge their own perspective or the visual perspective of one or two avatars who either looked at the same objects or looked at different objects. Results indicate that when a single avatar was present in the room, participants processed the irrelevant perspective even when it interfered with participants' explicit judgments about the relevant perspective. A similar interference effect wa

SUBMITTER: Capozzi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250177 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature