The mere presence of another person with different knowledge slows egocentric judgements, unaffected by cognitive load¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Participants were slowed in reporting what they themselves could see merely because another person present could see something different, and this effect was unaffected by cognitive load. → Frith Chris D 2012

Evidence¶

Frith Chris D 2012¶

Frith Chris D. (2012). The role of metacognition in human social interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0123

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A visual-perspective study (Samson et al., as reviewed here) in which participants judged only their own view. The review reports that "the mere presence of another person in the room with different knowledge slowed down this egocentric response", and that the process was automatic since it was "unaffected by cognitive load".

"The participants were never asked how many pictures the other person could see, but only how many they could see. Nevertheless, the mere presence of another person in the room with different knowledge slowed down this egocentric response."

Discussion¶

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