The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others' Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation.

ABSTRACT: Predictions allow humans to manage uncertainties within social interactions. Here, we investigate how explicit and implicit person models-how different people behave in different situations-shape these predictions. In a novel action identification task, participants judged whether actors interacted with or withdrew from objects. In two experiments, we manipulated, unbeknownst to participants, the two actors action likelihoods across situations, such that one actor typically interacted with one object and withdrew from the other, while the other actor showed the opposite behaviour. In Experiment 2, participants additionally received explicit information about the two individuals that either matched or mismatched their actual behaviours. The data revealed direct but dissociable effects of bo

SUBMITTER: Schenke KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951130 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature