Journal
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 315-326Publisher
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000504
Keywords
perspective-taking; empathy; emotion perception; emotional contagion; emotion recognition
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [ER 887/1-1]
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This article explores the relationship between visuospatial perspective-taking and affective perspective-taking. The findings indicate that visuospatial perspective-taking does not improve emotion recognition speed, but it does increase the perceived intensity of emotional expressions and the emotional contagiousness of negative emotions.
Perspective-taking is the ability to intuit another person's mental state. Historically, cognitive and affective perspective-taking are distinguished from visuospatial perspective-taking because the content these processes operate on is too dissimilar. However, all three share functional similarities. Following recent research showing relations between cognitive and visuospatial perspective-taking, this article explores links between visuospatial and affective perspective-taking. Data of three preregistered experiments suggest that visuospatial perspective-taking does not improve emotion recognition speed and only slightly increases emotion recognition accuracy (Experiment 1), yet visuospatial perspective-taking increases the perceived intensity of emotional expressions (Experiment 2), as well as the emotional contagiousness of negative emotions (Experiment 3). The implications of these findings for content-based, cognitive, and functional taxonomies of perspective-taking and related processes are discussed.
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