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A person, a dog, and a vase: The effect of avatar type in a perspective-taking task

Recent research has shown people process what another person sees even when not explicitly taking the other person perspective. Results show people are slower in their responses when a different number of stimuli can be seen from one's own and the avatar’s (other) perspective. In these incongruent trials, the avatar's perspective interferes with the response about one’s own perspective and vice versa. However, a question remains whether this is purely a consequence of perceptual cueing or if social information contributes to the effect. The goal of our study was to investigate differences in automatic processing depending on avatar type. The experiment was a 2 (perspective) × 2 (congruence) × 2 (avatar type) repeated measures design. Participants were significantly slower for incongruent trials and from the other's perspective. Additionally, perspective by avatar type interaction was significant. Participants were slower from the other's perspective only for human avatars, but not when the avatar was a dog. These results may imply additional time is required to take the perspective of a human being while the perspective of a dog represents a perceptive cue rather than requiring that additional step. We may conclude both perceptual and social information may contribute to perspective taking.

mentalizing ; perspective taking ; dot perspective task ; visual attention

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