{"pk":25850,"title":"In Search of Triggering Conditions for Spontaneous Visual Perspective Taking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Visual perspective taking (VPT) – people’s ability to\nrepresent the physical world from another person’s viewpoint\n– plays a fundamental role in social cognition. However, little\nis known about whether and when VPT can be triggered\nspontaneously without any explicit verbal prompting. In six\nstudies, we measured spontaneous VPT as the tendency to\nread an ambiguous number from another agent’s imagined\nperspective (“6”) rather than from one’s own default visual\nperspective (“9”). We found that the likelihood of\nspontaneous VPT varied systematically with the target agent’s\nbehavior. The strongest trigger for spontaneous VPT was the\nagent’s goal-directed reaching, followed by object-directed\ngaze, and lastly the agent’s mere presence in the scene.\nFurthermore, observing an agent’s reaching or gaze toward an\nobject triggered viewers’ spontaneous VPT even for objects\nwith which the agent was currently not engaged.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"visual perspective taking; nonverbal behaviors;\nsocial cognition; self; egocentric; theory of mind"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ts6j98x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Xuan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhao","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Corey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cusimano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Bertram","middle_name":"F","last_name":"Malle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25850/galley/15474/download/"}]}