Differentiation and integration: The addressee perspective-taking strategy in three-party conversation
1College of International Studies, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Acta Psychologica
|March 15, 2025
Summary
In multi-speaker conversations, people adjust their perspective-taking strategies. Participants integrated information from two speakers, showing egocentric bias influenced by audience design.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Psycholinguistics
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Perspective-taking is crucial for referential understanding in dialogues.
- Most research focuses on two-participant conversations, leaving multi-speaker dynamics less understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how addressees adjust perspective-taking when receiving referential instructions from two speakers.
- To explore the impact of consistent versus inconsistent perspectives on interpretation.
Main Methods:
- Two experiments were conducted with an addressee facing two speakers providing referential instructions.
- Experiment 1: Speaker 1 consistent, Speaker 2 inconsistent with addressee's perspective.
- Experiment 2: Both speakers inconsistent with addressee's perspective.
Main Results:
- Participants distinguished speaker perspectives in Experiment 1 but not Experiment 2.
- Egocentric bias was higher in Experiment 1 for Speaker 2's discourse compared to Experiment 2.
- Strategic changes aligned with Speaker 1's interpretation, suggesting integration of both speakers' perspectives.
Conclusions:
- Addressees integrate perspectives from multiple speakers in referential communication.
- Audience design strategies and probabilistic weighting may influence perspective-taking in multi-speaker settings.
- Findings highlight the complexity of social cognition in dynamic conversational environments.
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