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Visuospatial and affective perspective-taking: Similarities and differences
Erle,Thorsten M. Funk,Friederike
Erle,Thorsten M.
Funk,Friederike
Abstract
Perspective-taking is the ability to intuit another person’s mental state. Historically, cognitive and affective perspective-taking are distinguished from visuospatial perspective-taking because the content these processes operate on is too dissimilar. However, all three share functional similarities. Following recent research showing relations between cognitive and visuospatial perspective-taking, this article explores links between visuospatial and affective perspective-taking. Data of three preregistered experiments suggest that visuospatial perspective-taking does not improve emotion recognition speed and only slightly increases emotion recognition accuracy (Experiment 1), yet visuospatial perspective-taking increases the perceived intensity of emotional expressions (Experiment 2), as well as the emotional contagiousness of negative emotions (Experiment 3). The implications of these findings for content-based, cognitive, and functional taxonomies of perspective-taking and related processes are discussed.
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Preparation of this manuscript was supported by a Sachbeihife (ER 887/1-1) from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to the first author.
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2022
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emotion perception, emotion recognition, emotional contagion, empathy, perspective-taking
Citation
Erle, T M & Funk, F 2022, 'Visuospatial and affective perspective-taking : Similarities and differences', Social Psychology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000504
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