{"pk":28956,"title":"An asymmetry between distance estimates made to and from a target","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In three experiments, we demonstrated that the self can act as a cognitive reference point, producing an egocentric asym-metry effect on distance judgments such that targets are judged as closer to the viewer than the viewer is to the target.Egocentric asymmetry was observed even when there was a fixed reference object that people could use to anchor distanceestimates across trials (Experiment 2). Further, egocentric asymmetry was greater to a non-human artifact than to a humanavatar (Experiment 3). In addition, distances from a mailbox to a human avatar were estimated as shorter than distancesfrom an avatar to a mailbox, suggesting that the special status of the self may extend to other people when compared tonon-human objects even in allocentric distance judgments (Experiment 2).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations with Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kr2h7r2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bosch","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yaacov","middle_name":"","last_name":"Trope","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28956/galley/18827/download/"}]}