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New Insights into the Inter-Individual Variability in Perspective Taking

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Bukowski, Henryk [UCL] Samson, Dana [UCL]

This study aimed to test whether individual differences in perspective taking could be explained with two underpinning cognitive dimensions: The ability to handle the conflict between our egocentric perspective and another person’s perspective and the relative attentional focus during processing on the egocentric perspective versus another person’s perspective. We conducted cluster analyses on 346 participants who completed a visual perspective-taking task assessing performance on these two cognitive dimensions. Individual differences were best reduced by forming four clusters, or profiles, of perspective-takers. This partition reflected a high heterogeneity along both dimensions. In addition, deconstructing the perspective-taking performance into two distinct cognitive dimensions better predicted participants’ self-reported everyday life perspective-taking tendencies. Altogether, considering attentional focus and conflict handling as two potential sources of variability allows forming a two-dimensional space that enriches our understanding of the individual differences in perspective taking.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2017
Language Anglais
Journal information "Vision" - Vol. 1, no.1, p. 8 (2017)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 2411-5150
e-issn 2411-5150
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
UCL - SSS/IONS/COSY - Systems & cognitive Neuroscience
UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
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Bibliographic reference Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. New Insights into the Inter-Individual Variability in Perspective Taking. In: Vision, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 8 (2017)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/180362