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  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Joint action requires distinguishing one's own actions from others'.
  • Overt action features (e.g., spatial response location) are typically considered for this discrimination.
  • The role of covert action features in joint action discrimination remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if covert action features can resolve action discrimination problems in joint action.
  • To compare task performance in joint versus individual settings using the Go/Nogo Association Task.
  • To determine if social facilitation influences implicit attitude effects in joint action.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of joint and individual performance on the Go/Nogo Association Task.
  • Assessment of implicit attitude effects related to valence association with responses.
  • Experiment 3 specifically tested for social facilitation effects by comparing joint action with a person present versus individual action.

Main Results:

  • A larger implicit attitude effect was observed in joint settings compared to individual settings for both person-related and non-person-related stimuli.
  • This enhanced effect suggests increased valence information weighting in response coding when valence discriminates actions.
  • A smaller implicit attitude effect in a 'person present' setting ruled out social facilitation as the cause for the observed enhancement.

Conclusions:

  • Action discrimination during joint action can effectively utilize covert action features.
  • Findings support the referential coding account of action representation in shared tasks.
  • This research specifies the nature of action features represented during joint action participation.