群组视角观点采择:自动加工的证据

Group Perspective Taking:Evidence of Spontaneous Processing

基于经典的视觉观点采择范式,本研究探讨人们如何采择群组视角观点。研究创设了自我视角信息与群组视角信息一致与不一致条件,比较两种条件下被试对自我视角信息判断的反应时。若被试在视角信息不一致条件下的反应时显著长于其在一致条件下时,提示被试在判断自我视角信息时受到了群组视角信息的干扰,即自动加工了群组视角的观点。结果显示,相比视角信息一致条件,被试在视角信息不一致条件下反应时更长。当虚拟人物群组被箭头替代后,被试自动加工群组视角信息效应消失。该结果揭示,人们会自动地加工社会群组的视觉信息,且该效应不能由物理层面的指向所解释。

Understanding what others think and see is crucial for social interactions.Previous studies have shown that people can spontaneously infer what an individual sees.Still,it is unclear whether they can spontaneously calculate what a group sees at a group level.To investigate this question,this study employed a novel visual perspective-taking paradigm that required participants to judge their own perspective from the picture that four avatars who either looked at the same objects or looked at different objects.We found that participants could not easily ignore what the group saw when making self-perspective judgments.This effect occurred even when the avatars looked at different objects,but not when they were replaced by arrows with similar low-level features.This suggests that people can spontaneously calculate what a group sees,and this process is driven by the social group information,rather than by the physical directionality.