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Joint perception: gaze and social context

We found that the way people looked at images was influenced by their belief that others were looking too. If participants believed that an unseen other person was also looking at what they could see, it shifted the balance of their gaze between negative and positive images. The direction of this sh...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Daniel C., Street, Chris N. H., Tan, Joanne Y. M., Kirkham, Natasha Z., Hoover, Merrit A., Ghane Cavanaugh, Arezou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3388371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22783179
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00194
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author Richardson, Daniel C.
Street, Chris N. H.
Tan, Joanne Y. M.
Kirkham, Natasha Z.
Hoover, Merrit A.
Ghane Cavanaugh, Arezou
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description We found that the way people looked at images was influenced by their belief that others were looking too. If participants believed that an unseen other person was also looking at what they could see, it shifted the balance of their gaze between negative and positive images. The direction of this shift depended upon whether participants thought that later they would be compared against the other person or would be collaborating with them. Changes in the social context influenced both gaze and memory processes, and were not due just to participants' belief that they are looking at the same images, but also to the belief that they are doing the same task. We believe that the phenomenon of joint perception reveals the pervasive and subtle effect of social context upon cognitive and perceptual processes.
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spelling pubmed-33883712012-07-10 Joint perception: gaze and social context Richardson, Daniel C. Street, Chris N. H. Tan, Joanne Y. M. Kirkham, Natasha Z. Hoover, Merrit A. Ghane Cavanaugh, Arezou Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience We found that the way people looked at images was influenced by their belief that others were looking too. If participants believed that an unseen other person was also looking at what they could see, it shifted the balance of their gaze between negative and positive images. The direction of this shift depended upon whether participants thought that later they would be compared against the other person or would be collaborating with them. Changes in the social context influenced both gaze and memory processes, and were not due just to participants' belief that they are looking at the same images, but also to the belief that they are doing the same task. We believe that the phenomenon of joint perception reveals the pervasive and subtle effect of social context upon cognitive and perceptual processes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3388371/ /pubmed/22783179 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00194 Text en Copyright © 2012 Richardson, Street, Tan, Kirkham, Hoover and Ghane Cavanaugh. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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