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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • Human Perception

Background:

  • Adults typically excel at visual perspective-taking but struggle with inconsistent viewpoints.
  • Egocentric and altercentric biases are known to interfere with perspective-taking tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if egocentric and altercentric biases persist in complex, real-world environments.
  • To examine the influence of explicit prompts on visual perspective-taking in naturalistic settings.

Main Methods:

  • A dot-probe visual perspective-taking task was administered to 150 participants.
  • Participants judged the number of discs from their own perspective and another person's perspective in natural scenes.
  • Task conditions included isolated self-perspective judgments and switching between self and other perspectives.

Main Results:

  • The other person's perspective did not impede self-perspective judgments when not explicitly prompted.
  • Egocentric and altercentric biases were observed when participants switched between self and other perspectives.
  • Spontaneous activation of altercentric visual perspective-taking occurred in complex contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Altercentric visual perspective-taking is spontaneously activated in complex, real-world contexts.
  • Top-down (explicit prompts) and bottom-up (salient stimuli) factors influence visual perspective-taking biases.
  • Switching between self and other perspectives elicits egocentric and altercentric biases.