Zhou, Xingchen and Jenkins, Rob orcid.org/0000-0003-4793-0435 (2022) Face-evoked thoughts. Cognition. 104955. ISSN 0010-0277
Abstract
The thoughts that come to mind when viewing a face depend partly on the face and partly on the viewer. This basic interaction raises the question of how much common ground there is in face-evoked thoughts, and how this compares to viewers' expectations. Previous analyses have focused on early perceptual stages of face processing. Here we take a more expansive approach that encompasses later associative stages. In Experiment 1 (free association), participants exhibited strong egocentric bias, greatly overestimating the extent to which other people's thoughts resembled their own. In Experiment 2, we show that viewers' familiarity with a face can be decoded from their face-evoked thoughts. In Experiment 3 (person association), participants reported who came to mind when viewing a face—a task that emphasises connections in a social network rather than nodes. Here again, viewers' estimates of common ground exceeded actual common ground by a large margin. We assume that a face elicits much the same thoughts in other people as it does in us, but that is a mistake. In this respect, we are more isolated than we think.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to Rob Jenkins. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Egocentric bias,Face perception,False consensus,Metacognition |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2022 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104955 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104955 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185070 |
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