Gender and perceived cooperation modulate visual attention in a joint spatial cueing task

Tufft, Miles R. A.; Göbel, Matthias

doi:10.1080/13506285.2021.1976892

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“…In that study, just as in the present one, differences in participants' attention cannot be attributed to the physical environment but to the way in which participants mentally represented that environment (Gobel et al, 2018; also see Richardson & Gobel, 2015). Further recent studies by the same authors (Gobel & Giesbrecht, 2020;Tufft & Gobel, 2022) also indicated that social top-down information can affect lowlevel spatial orienting.…”

Section: The Sociality Of the Social Iormentioning

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Attention allocation in complementary joint action: How joint goals affect spatial orienting

Schmitz,

Wahn,

Krüger

2023

Atten Percept Psychophys

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When acting jointly, individuals often attend and respond to the same object or spatial location in complementary ways (e.g., when passing a mug, one person grasps its handle with a precision grip; the other receives it with a whole-hand grip). At the same time, the spatial relation between individuals’ actions affects attentional orienting: one is slower to attend and respond to locations another person previously acted upon than to alternate locations (“social inhibition of return”, social IOR). Achieving joint goals (e.g., passing a mug), however, often requires complementary return responses to a co-actor’s previous location. This raises the question of whether attentional orienting, and hence the social IOR, is affected by the (joint) goal our actions are directed at. The present study addresses this question. Participants responded to cued locations on a computer screen, taking turns with a virtual co-actor. They pursued either an individual goal or performed complementary actions with the co-actor, in pursuit of a joint goal. Four experiments showed that the social IOR was significantly modulated when participant and co-actor pursued a joint goal. This suggests that attentional orienting is affected not only by the spatial but also by the social relation between two agents’ actions. Our findings thus extend research on interpersonal perception-action effects, showing that the way another agent’s perceived action shapes our own depends on whether we share a joint goal with that agent.

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Section: The Sociality Of the Social Iormentioning

confidence: 81%

Attention allocation in complementary joint action: How joint goals affect spatial orienting

Schmitz,

Wahn,

Krüger

2023

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…The second was previous studies examining similar effects (i.e., the social inhibition of return). Some of these studies conducted a two-way ANOVA and employed approximately 35 participants per group (e.g., Gobel & Giesbrecht, 2020 ; Tufft & Gobel, 2022 ). Considering these two types of studies, it was assumed that an effect size for the present study’s hypothesis could be examined with 40 participants per group.…”

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Visual memory of a co-actor’s target during joint search

Sakata

Ueda

Moriguchi

2023

Psychological Research

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Studies on joint action show that when two actors turn-takingly attend to each other’s target that appears one at a time, a partner’s target is accumulated in memory. However, in the real world, actors may not be certain that they attend to the same object because multiple objects often appear simultaneously. In this study, we asked participant pairs to search for different targets in parallel from multiple objects and investigated the memory of a partner’s target. We employed the contextual cueing paradigm, in which repetitive search forms associative memory between a target and a configuration of distractors that facilitates search. During the learning phase, exemplars of three target categories (i.e., bird, shoe, and tricycle) were presented among unique objects, and participant pairs searched for them. In Experiment 1, it was followed by a memory test about target exemplars. Consequently, the partner’s target was better recognized than the target that nobody searched for. In Experiments 2a and 2b, the memory test was replaced with the transfer phase, where one individual from the pair searched for the category that nobody had searched for while the other individual searched for the category the partner had searched for in the learning phase. The transfer phase did not show search facilitation underpinned by associative memory between the partner’s target and distractors. These results suggest that when participant pairs search for different targets in parallel, they accumulate the partner’s target in memory but may not form its associative memory with the distractors that facilitates its search. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00426-023-01819-7.

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“…In many ways, it does. Recent work has shown that covert attentional orienting (shifting attention without gaze movements) is sensitive to the social significance of the cue, including its association with another individual (Nafcha et al., 2020), a person's gender (Tufft & Gobel, 2022), and their status and actions (Gobel et al., 2018). Similarly, people follow more easily and spontaneously the gaze direction of people who present some type of social relevance, either via facial/physical cues like dominance (Jones et al., 2010), behavioral cues like group cooperation (Hudson et al., 2012), and personal information like high‐status CVs (Dalmaso et al., 2012).…”

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The effects of visual attention on social behavior

Capozzi,

Kingstone

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Psychology has made tremendous strides in understanding the effects that social stimuli have on attention. However, one aspect that has received relatively less consideration is the role that attention plays in social interactions. The present review examines how attentional orienting, engagement, and communication affect and shape a diverse array of social processes, including person perception, discrimination, and group structures. Specifically, the empirical evidence reviewed here points to the notions that (1) attentional orienting mediates learning and acquisition of others' attitudes and reflects or reinforces the use of stereotypical social information; (2) attentional engagement increases the accuracy of impression formation and modulates impression valence (positive vs. negative) depending on contextual and cultural factors; (3) attentional communication conveys socially appropriate behavior depending on interpersonal factors such as familiarity, intimacy, and social status. Overall, this review reveals that the links between cognitive and social psychology are strong and bidirectional, binds that hold the potential for many new and exciting discoveries in the near future.

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Gender and perceived cooperation modulate visual attention in a joint spatial cueing task

Cited by 6 publications

References 57 publications

Attention allocation in complementary joint action: How joint goals affect spatial orienting

Attention allocation in complementary joint action: How joint goals affect spatial orienting

Visual memory of a co-actor’s target during joint search

The effects of visual attention on social behavior

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