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  • Social Neuroscience
  • Human Perception

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  • Face perception involves both facial features and individual viewer characteristics.
  • Previous research focused on early face processing, neglecting associative stages.
  • Understanding shared thoughts during face perception is crucial for social cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the extent of common ground in face-evoked thoughts.
  • To compare actual common ground with viewers' expectations.
  • To explore how familiarity influences face-evoked thoughts and social network associations.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Free association tasks to assess egocentric bias in face-evoked thoughts.
  • Experiment 2: Decoding facial familiarity from evoked thoughts.
  • Experiment 3: Person association tasks to map social network connections elicited by faces.

Main Results:

  • Participants significantly overestimated the commonality of thoughts evoked by faces (egocentric bias).
  • Facial familiarity was successfully decoded from participants' face-evoked thoughts.
  • Estimates of shared social network connections exceeded actual connections, highlighting perceived vs. actual common ground.

Conclusions:

  • We tend to project our own thoughts onto others when viewing faces, leading to an overestimation of shared experiences.
  • Viewer familiarity with a face influences the thoughts and associations it evokes.
  • Individuals may be more socially isolated in their face-evoked thought processes than they assume.