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  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

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  • Shared attention, attending to the world with others, is a pervasive human behavior across sensory modalities.
  • Mass media technologies have expanded the scope of shared attention beyond physical co-presence.
  • Research increasingly explores the impact of shared attention on memory, motivation, judgment, emotion, and behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advance a psychological theory of shared attention.
  • To define the properties of shared attention as a mental state.
  • To outline the cognitive, affective, and behavioral consequences of shared attention.

Main Methods:

  • Review of empirical findings uniquely predicted by shared-attention theory.
  • Theoretical integration of shared attention with social facilitation and social loafing perspectives.
  • Analysis of implications for digital world interactions.

Main Results:

  • A proposed psychological theory of shared attention.
  • Identification of cognitive, affective, and behavioral consequences.
  • Discussion of theoretical integration and digital implications.

Conclusions:

  • Shared attention is a fundamental psychological state with broad consequences.
  • The theory offers a framework for understanding social attention in various contexts.
  • Implications for navigating attention in the digital age are considered.