SPATIAL AND EMPATHIC PERSPECTIVE-TAKING CORRELATE ON A DISPOSITIONAL LEVEL

被引:52
作者
Erle, Thorsten M. [1 ]
Topolinski, Sascha [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wurzburg, D-97070 Wurzburg, Germany
[2] Univ Cologne, Cologne, Germany
关键词
VISUAL PERSPECTIVE; AFFECTIVE CONSEQUENCES; GENDER DIFFERENCES; STIGMATIZED GROUP; SEX-DIFFERENCES; MENTAL-IMAGERY; SOCIAL-SKILLS; SELF-ROTATION; ABILITY; PERCEPTION;
D O I
10.1521/soco.2015.33.3.187
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Empathic perspective-taking is inevitably described using spatial locatives ("understanding a point of view") and involves a metaphorical "merging of the self and other." Visuo-spatial perspective-taking involves an actual embodied merging of the self and other. Yet, the two kinds of perspective-taking are treated as independent of each other. Four studies found that these two kinds of perspective-taking are related on a dispositional level. Individuals with high levels of empathic perspective-taking were betterat imagining different views of the same object (Studies 1-3). This correlation could not be explained by general intelligence (Study 2) and was nominally stronger among participants who explicitly reported that they engaged in spatial perspective-taking (Study 3). Study 4 showed a correlation between empathic perspective-taking and performance on another spatial perspective-taking task. These relations can be explained by a shared mechanism of embodied self-rotation during all kinds of perspective-taking.
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页码:187 / 210
页数:24
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