Abstract
Coordinated action relies on shared representations between interaction partners: people co-represent actions of others in order to respond appropriately. However, little is known about the social factors that influence shared representations. We investigated whether actions performed by in-group and out-group members are represented differently, and if so, what role perspective-taking plays in this process. White participants performed a joint Simon task with an animated image of a hand with either white or black skin tone. Results of study I demonstrated that actions performed by in-group members were co-represented while actions of out-group members were not. In study II, it was found that participants co-represented actions of out-group members when they had read about an out-group member and to take his perspective prior to the actual experiment. Possible explanations for these findings are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 423-428 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Experimental Brain Research |
| Volume | 211 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We thank Wesley van Pinxteren and Sarah Opsomer for their help in collecting the data, Jeroen Derks for creating the stimuli, and Jos Wittebrood and Pascal de Water for technical support. This research was supported by a open MaGW grant from the Dutch Research Foundation NWO (400-07-203) awarded to Rick van Baaren. Simone Kuhn is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
Keywords
- Joint action
- Action co-representation
- Action-perception link
- Task sharing
- Group membership
- STIGMATIZED GROUP
- JOINT ACTION
- EMPATHY
- SELF
- TASK
- PERCEPTION
- ATTITUDES