Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood.

Autor: De Lillo M; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK., Foley R; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK., Fysh MC; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK., Stimson A; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK., Bradford EEF; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.; School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK., Woodrow-Hill C; Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK., Ferguson HJ; School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. h.ferguson@kent.ac.uk.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature human behaviour [Nat Hum Behav] 2021 Oct; Vol. 5 (10), pp. 1381-1390. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 13.
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01113-9
Abstrakt: Detecting and responding appropriately to social information in one's environment is a vital part of everyday social interactions. Here, we report two preregistered experiments that examine how social attention develops across the lifespan, comparing adolescents (10-19 years old), young (20-40 years old) and older (60-80 years old) adults. In two real-world tasks, participants were immersed in different social interaction situations-a face-to-face conversation and navigating an environment-and their attention to social and non-social content was recorded using eye-tracking glasses. The results revealed that, compared with young adults, adolescents and older adults attended less to social information (that is, the face) during face-to-face conversation, and to people when navigating the real world. Thus, we provide evidence that real-world social attention undergoes age-related change, and these developmental differences might be a key mechanism that influences theory of mind among adolescents and older adults, with potential implications for predicting successful social interactions in daily life.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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