Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/139634
Citations | ||
Scopus | Web of Science® | Altmetric |
---|---|---|
?
|
?
|
Type: | Journal article |
Title: | “No man is an island”: Effects of interpersonal proximity on spatial attention |
Author: | Szpak, A. Nicholls, M.E.R. Thomas, N.A. Laham, S.M. Loetscher, T. |
Citation: | Cognitive Neuroscience, 2016; 7(1-4):45-54 |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 1758-8928 1758-8936 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ancrêt Szpak, Michael E.R. Nicholls, Nicole A. Thomas, Simon M. Laham, and Tobias Loetscher |
Abstract: | While it is generally acknowledged that another person's presence can influence how we behave within our environment, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this influence is limited. Three experiments investigated the effect of social presence on the lateral distribution of spatial attention. Shifts in spatial attention were measured using line bisection, while participants sat in each other's personal space. An attentional withdrawal was observed, whereby attention moved away from the other person when the same task was using turn-taking (Experiment 1) and independent responding (Experiment 2) paradigms. When participant pairs engaged in different tasks (Experiment 3), attentional withdrawal was no longer observed. Our results strongly suggest that the influence of interpersonal proximity on attention merits greater consideration than it has received from researchers investigating social effects on cognition. |
Keywords: | Joint action; Social proximity; Spatial attention; Line bisection. |
Rights: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis |
DOI: | 10.1080/17588928.2015.1048677 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130100541 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1048677 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology publications |
Files in This Item:
There are no files associated with this item.
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.