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The presence of other‐race people disrupts spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking.

Authors :
Zhai, Jing
Xie, Jiushu
Chen, Jiahan
Huang, Yujie
Ma, Yuchao
Huang, Yanli
Source :
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Oct2021, Vol. 62 Issue 5, p655-664, 10p, 1 Color Photograph, 4 Diagrams
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Visual perspective taking is an essential skill for effective social interaction. Previous studies have tested various perceiver‐based factors that affect intentional perspective taking; however, the factors affecting spontaneous perspective taking remain unknown. To fill this gap, the present study used a novel spontaneous visual perspective taking paradigm to explore how an agent's race and emotion affect spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking. In Experiment 1, the participants completed a mental rotation task while a human agent simultaneously gazed at the target with positive, negative, or neutral facial expressions. The agent was African, Caucasian, or Chinese. The results revealed that the other‐race agents disrupted the participants' spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking, while emotion weakly affected it. Experiment 2 retested whether emotion could affect spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking while only own‐race agents were used. The participants completed the same task as that in Experiment 1. The results revealed that emotions weakly affected spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking. In summary, the present study first examined what target‐based factors affect spontaneous level‐2 visual perspective taking. The results extend the representation and incorporation of the close others' responses (RICOR) model. Specifically, people routinely construct representations of other people's points of view when they share the same racial group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00365564
Volume :
62
Issue :
5
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
152513220
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12751