Social Agency as a continuum

Silver, Crystal A.; Tatler, Benjamin W.; Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna; Timmermans, Bert

doi:10.3758/s13423-020-01845-1

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“…Indeed, arm-movement responses have primacy over keypresses in development, and preconceptual intentionality is evidenced even in neonatal arm movements which are organized according to their anticipated effects (Delafield-Butt et al, 2018). Social effects can shape movements throughout development (Silver et al, 2021), and, as outlined earlier, the social self is thought to develop through sensorimotor exploration of the social environment. Thus arm-movement responses (particularly those that are fast and ballistic) are likely to reflect the automatic operation of self–other relations more reliably than keypress responses due to deeply-ingrained links.…”

Section: Self-bias and Lower And Higher Level Representations Of Selfmentioning

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The influence of empathy and perceived closeness on self- and friend-biases in arm movements.

Desebrock¹,

Barutchu²,

Spence³

2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Manual motor responses to newly self-associated as compared with other-associated stimuli in a matching task are typically enhanced. However, little is known about the representations of self and other underlying these responses. An emerging theoretical view is that self-bias in these responses is not influenced by consciously accessible constructs of the self, such as explicit self-esteem, and instead reflects implicit (automatic and preconscious) self-related processing. An alternative view is that self-bias is influenced by explicit self-representations and self-reflective processing. To decide between these two accounts, we introduced the friend variable to a movement adaptation of the matching task and examined for the first time the relationship between self-bias and friend-stranger bias and subjective measures of empathy and personal distance (PD; the perceived closeness between others and the self). Associations were revealed between the subjective measures and the biases in the manual motor responses. Regression analyses revealed that empathy was a significant predictor of self-bias, and PD was a significant predictor of friend-stranger bias. These findings suggest that biases in matching task motor responses may be (directly or indirectly) influenced by explicit representations of the interrelations between others and the self. These biases may therefore not operate independently of higher level self-related constructs as has been suggested previously. We discuss implications of our findings for understanding the operation of different aspects of the self in cognition and action, and across divergent populations, for example, in autism spectrum disorder. Public Significance StatementResponses to newly self-as compared with other-associated stimuli in a matching task are typically enhanced. An emerging view suggests that self-biases are not influenced by consciously accessible constructs of the self, such as self-esteem. In a novel demonstration we show that this self-bias in rapid arm-movement responses is influenced by people's self-reported responsiveness to others (empathy). People's conscious perceptions of the closeness between the self and others also influenced friend-stranger bias. Contrary to previous thought, this study thus indicates a link between subjective perceptions of self-other relations and implicit self-and friend-stranger biases in manual responses. We discuss implications of our findings for understanding operation of the self in action through implicit and explicit representations of the interrelations between others and the self.

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Section: Self-bias and Lower And Higher Level Representations Of Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of empathy and perceived closeness on self- and friend-biases in arm movements.

Desebrock¹,

Barutchu²,

Spence³

2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…To address this gap, we propose a complementary account of emotional collectiveness based on the categories of social and cognitive processes that we identified in Section 1: emotion alignment, mutual awareness and feeling of connectedness. This proposal draws on recent typologies of social attention (Siposova & Carpenter, 2019) and social agency (Silver et al, 2021) based on their dynamic characteristics. Here, the type of collective emotion depends on the categories of social and cognitive processes involved and the extent to which they occur.…”

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Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research

Chung¹,

Grèzes²,

Pacherie³

2022

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A bustling literature spanning philosophy, psychology and social sciences aims for a better understanding of the collective patterns of emotions stirring human society. To date, however, this endeavour is still in need of a unifying conceptual framework and empirical evidence regarding the characteristics, antecedents and consequences of collective emotion remains sparse. To foster progress in the field, we examine existing accounts and identify three characteristics of collective emotion: emotion alignment, feeling of social connectedness and mutual awareness. We then propose a typology of collective emotion that accounts for the dynamic interplay of social and cognitive processes. Crucially, this typology allows for integrating different accounts and research traditions into an experimental framework that generates testable predictions regarding the mechanisms and consequences of collective emotion. Finally, we review available empirical evidence in social and cognitive sciences and we discuss future directions for an evidence-based approach to collective emotion.

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“…While early sociomotor studies have provided proof-of-principle evidence for the role of social action effects on human action control, lately, attention shifted towards factors that may distinguish control over social as compared to non-social events. As we will demonstrate in the following sections, currently, differences between interactions with the social and with the inanimate environment are less apparent in sociomotor paradigms than in other areas that are related to action-effect binding (e.g., sense of agency and temporal binding: Stephenson et al, 2018 ; Silver et al, 2021 ; Vogel et al, 2021 ). Thus, the goal of the current review is to re-orient research on sociomotor action control by incorporating insights from related fields of study.…”

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Social Action Effects: Representing Predicted Partner Responses in Social Interactions

Neszmélyi

Weller

Kunde

et al. 2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The sociomotor framework outlines a possible role of social action effects on human action control, suggesting that anticipated partner reactions are a major cue to represent, select, and initiate own body movements. Here, we review studies that elucidate the actual content of social action representations and that explore factors that can distinguish action control processes involving social and inanimate action effects. Specifically, we address two hypotheses on how the social context can influence effect-based action control: first, by providing unique social features such as body-related, anatomical codes, and second, by orienting attention towards any relevant feature dimensions of the action effects. The reviewed empirical work presents a surprisingly mixed picture: while there is indirect evidence for both accounts, previous studies that directly addressed the anatomical account showed no signs of the involvement of genuinely social features in sociomotor action control. Furthermore, several studies show evidence against the differentiation of social and non-social action effect processing, portraying sociomotor action representations as remarkably non-social. A focus on enhancing the social experience in future studies should, therefore, complement the current database to establish whether such settings give rise to the hypothesized influence of social context.

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Social Agency as a continuum

Cited by 40 publications

References 135 publications

The influence of empathy and perceived closeness on self- and friend-biases in arm movements.

The influence of empathy and perceived closeness on self- and friend-biases in arm movements.

Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research

Social Action Effects: Representing Predicted Partner Responses in Social Interactions

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