ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
A cross-culture, cross-gender comparison of perspective taking mechanisms.
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- Psychometric validation of social cognition measures in U.S. Hispanic individuals with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Japanese Are Less Human-Centred than French: A New View on Spontaneous Perspective-Taking in Easterners.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Neural Oscillatory Basis of Perspective-Taking in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adolescents Using Magnetoencephalography.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Beyond Gender: Interoceptive Sensibility as a Key Predictor of Body Image Disturbances.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- It's Not You, It's Me: A Review of Individual Differences in Visuospatial Perspective Taking.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Review
- A randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training for persons with first episode psychosis in Hong Kong.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Chinese cognitive processing of ToM: Distinctions in understanding the mental states of self, close others, and strangers.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Bilingualism Enhances Reported Perspective Taking in Men, but Not in Women.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The effects of body direction and posture on taking the perspective of a humanoid avatar in a virtual environment.PloS one · 2021Article
- Social Cognition and Schizophrenia: Unresolved Issues and New Challenges in a Maturing Field of Research.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2020Article
- The Right Temporoparietal Junction Is Causally Associated with Embodied Perspective-taking.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Motor Program Transformation of Throwing Dart from the Third-Person Perspective.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Perspective-taking across cultures: shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Social Abilities and Visual-Spatial Perspective-Taking Skill: Deaf Signers and Hearing Nonsigners.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2019Article
- Does social distance modulate adults' egocentric biases when reasoning about false beliefs?PloS one · 2018Article
- THETA-Rhythm Makes the World Go Round: Dissociative Effects of TMS Theta Versus Alpha Entrainment of Right pTPJ on Embodied Perspective Transformations.Brain topography · 2017Article
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Abstract
Being able to judge another person's visuo-spatial perspective is an essential social skill, hence we investigated the generalizability of the involved mechanisms across cultures and genders. Developmental, cross-species, and our own previous research suggest that two different forms of perspective taking can be distinguished, which are subserved by two distinct mechanisms. The simpler form relies on inferring another's line-of-sight, whereas the more complex form depends on embodied transformation into the other's orientation in form of a simulated body rotation. Our current results suggest that, in principle, the same basic mechanisms are employed by males and females in both, East-Asian (EA; Chinese) and Western culture. However, we also confirmed the hypothesis that Westerners show an egocentric bias, whereas EAs reveal an other-oriented bias. Furthermore, Westerners were slower overall than EAs and showed stronger gender differences in speed and depth of embodied processing. Our findings substantiate differences and communalities in social cognition mechanisms across genders and two cultures and suggest that cultural evolution or transmission should take gender as a modulating variable into account.
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