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Bodily perspective taking goes social: the role of personal, interpersonal, and intercultural factors
Author(s) -
Mohr Christine,
Rowe Angela C.,
Kurokawa Izumi,
Dendy Laura,
Theodoridou Angeliki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12093
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , collectivism , perspective taking , interpersonal communication , task (project management) , interpersonal relationship , individualism , empathy , management , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , economics , law
Mentally placing the self in the physical position of another person might engage social perspective taking because participants have to match their own position with that of another. We investigated the influence of personal (sex), interpersonal (siblings, parental marital status), and cultural (individualistic, collectivistic) factors on individuals' abilities to mentally take the position of front‐facing and back‐facing figures in an online study (369 participants). Replicating findings from laboratory studies responses were slower for front‐facing than back‐facing figures. Having siblings, parents' marital status, and cultural background influenced task performance in theoretically predictable ways. The present perspective‐taking task is a promising experimental paradigm to assess social perspective taking and one that is free from the response biases inherent in self‐report.