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Does self-construal shape automatic social attention?
We examined whether activating independent or interdependent self-construal modulates attention shifting in response to group gaze cues. European Canadians (Study 1) and East Asian Canadians (Study 2) primed with independence vs. interdependence completed a multi-gaze cueing task with a central face...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246577 |
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author | Lo, Ronda F. Ng, Andy H. Cohen, Adam S. Sasaki, Joni Y. |
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description | We examined whether activating independent or interdependent self-construal modulates attention shifting in response to group gaze cues. European Canadians (Study 1) and East Asian Canadians (Study 2) primed with independence vs. interdependence completed a multi-gaze cueing task with a central face gazing left or right, flanked by multiple background faces that either matched or mismatched the direction of the foreground gaze. Results showed that European Canadians (Study 1) mostly ignored background gaze cues and were uninfluenced by the self-construal primes. However, East Asian Canadians (Study 2), who have cultural backgrounds relevant to both independence and interdependence, showed different attention patterns by prime: those primed with interdependence were more distracted by mismatched (vs. matched) background gaze cues, whereas there was no change for those primed with independence. These findings suggest activating an interdependent self-construal modulates social attention mechanisms to attend broadly, but only for those who may find these representations meaningful. |
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spelling | pubmed-78753442021-02-19 Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? Lo, Ronda F. Ng, Andy H. Cohen, Adam S. Sasaki, Joni Y. PLoS One Research Article We examined whether activating independent or interdependent self-construal modulates attention shifting in response to group gaze cues. European Canadians (Study 1) and East Asian Canadians (Study 2) primed with independence vs. interdependence completed a multi-gaze cueing task with a central face gazing left or right, flanked by multiple background faces that either matched or mismatched the direction of the foreground gaze. Results showed that European Canadians (Study 1) mostly ignored background gaze cues and were uninfluenced by the self-construal primes. However, East Asian Canadians (Study 2), who have cultural backgrounds relevant to both independence and interdependence, showed different attention patterns by prime: those primed with interdependence were more distracted by mismatched (vs. matched) background gaze cues, whereas there was no change for those primed with independence. These findings suggest activating an interdependent self-construal modulates social attention mechanisms to attend broadly, but only for those who may find these representations meaningful. Public Library of Science 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7875344/ /pubmed/33566804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246577 Text en © 2021 Lo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lo, Ronda F. Ng, Andy H. Cohen, Adam S. Sasaki, Joni Y. Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title | Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title_full | Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title_fullStr | Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title_short | Does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
title_sort | does self-construal shape automatic social attention? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246577 |
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