The unreliability of egocentric bias across self-other and memory-belief distinctions in the Sandbox Task.

ABSTRACT: Humans are often considered egocentric creatures, particularly (and ironically) when we are supposed to take another person's perspective over our own (i.e. when we use our theory of mind). We investigated the underlying causes of this phenomenon. We gave young adult participants a false belief task (Sandbox Task) in which objects were first hidden at one location by a protagonist and then moved to a second location within the same space but in the protagonist's absence. Participants were asked to indicate either where the protagonist remembered the item to be (reasoning about another's memory), believed it to be (reasoning about another's false belief), or where the protagonist would look for it (action prediction of another based on false belief). The distance away from Location A (the o

SUBMITTER: Samuel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281948 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature