Today's tweet thread is a lovely new paper from @TianmoranYe looking at how we take perspectives when there are multiple people. Whose perspective do you take here (and why not the manikin?)
In VR, participants saw two people with different perspectives and have to judge if the letter R is normal or mirrored. They are faster if the letter is oriented towards someone who moves like a human or is an ingroup member.
And we get similar results in a VR version of the Director Task. This means that humanization matters for perspective taking - people will spontaneously take perspectives, but only for an agent who seems more Human - alive & in my group.
The full paper is here https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-020-01850-4 and well done to Tian Ye for getting this out.
Taking the perspectives of many people: Humanization matters

In a busy space, people encounter many other people with different viewpoints, but classic studies of perspective-taking examine only one agent at a time. This paper explores the issue of selectivity...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-020-01850-4
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