Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The way that we look at images is influenced by social \ncontext. Previously we demonstrated this phenomenon of \njoint perception. If lone participants believed that an unseen \nother person was also looking at the images they saw, it \nshifted the balance of their gaze between negative and \npositive images. The direction of this shift depended upon \nwhether participants thought that later they would be \ncompared against the other person or would be collaborating \nwith them. Here we examined whether the joint perception is \ncaused by beliefs about shared experience (looking at the \nsame images) or beliefs about joint action (being engaged in \nthe same task with the images). We place our results in the \ncontext of the emerging field of joint action, and discuss their \nconnection to notions of group emotion and situated \ncognition. Such findings reveal the persuasive and subtle \neffect of social context upon cognitive and perceptual \nprocesses
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1629402279