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  • Social Cognition
  • Action Perception

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  • Contextual cues shape our understanding and prediction of others' actions.
  • The role of social context in action prediction remains an area for further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether social context influences observers' predictions of unfolding actions.
  • To determine if the presence of a partner affects action expectations.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments presented participants with videos of an actor walking towards furniture.
  • Videos depicted either a joint context (with a partner) or a solo context (without a partner).
  • Belief manipulations were used to probe the specificity of social context effects.

Main Results:

  • Greater predictive bias (stronger action expectations) was observed in the joint context compared to the solo context.
  • This social context effect persisted even when controlling for perceptual factors and with unlikely action manipulations.
  • Belief manipulations selectively suppressed context differences when actions were feasible in both contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Social context significantly modulates action prediction, even for kinematically identical actions.
  • Observers' expectations are sensitive to the presence of other individuals.
  • These findings highlight the integral role of social information in real-time action perception.