{"pk":27982,"title":"Changing Minds: The Effect of Stimulated Attention to Another’s Different Point ofView on Visual Perspective-Taking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Two experiments examined whether an explicit attention toanother’s perspective fosters perspective-taking. The firstexperiment attempted to replicate Todd et al.’s (2010) findingsthat a mind-set focusing on self-other differences incitesrespondents to adopt another person’s perspective in asubsequent task. Results showed that perceivers focusing onself-other differences were just as likely to describe an object’slocation from their egocentric perspective as perceiversfocusing on self-other similarities. The second experimentintensified perceivers’ awareness of self-other differences byallocating them to one of the perspective-settings (none, self-focus, other-focus). Participants in the perspective-settingsreceived explicit instructions to regard their own (self-focus)or another person’s (other-focus) viewpoint during theperspective-taking task. Findings revealed that other-focusedrespondents were more likely to adopt another person’sperspective than self-focused respondents. Compared to thebaseline, however, an explicit self- or other-focus did not fosterperspective-taking. Our findings indicate the robustness ofrespondents’ egocentric bias.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"perspective-taking; self-other differences;egocentricity bias; replication study"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b35z2tj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Debby","middle_name":"","last_name":"Damen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg university","department":""},{"first_name":"Marije","middle_name":"","last_name":"van Amelsvoort","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg university","department":""},{"first_name":"Per","middle_name":"","last_name":"van der Wijst","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg university","department":""},{"first_name":"Emiel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Krahmer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg university","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27982/galley/17621/download/"}]}