Does altercentric interference rely on mentalizing?: Results from two level-1 perspective-taking tasks.

ABSTRACT: Considerable debate has focused on whether adults possess an implicit system for representing others' mental states. Some argue that people automatically represent the perspective of others using evidence from altercentric interference-cases in which another agent's perspective affects the speed with which one can report one's own perspective. Others have argued that altercentric interference is not always specific to social stimuli and thus may represent a simpler process such as submentalizing. To distinguish between these positions, Study 1 developed a novel measure of altercentric interference-a "sandbox" measure-that allowed us to more sensitively assess altercentric interference across social and non-social conditions. We replicated previous findings showing that participants experie

SUBMITTER: Marshall J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5864002 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature