Ownership Status Influences the Degree of Joint Facilitatory Behavior
| Autor: | Steven P. Tipper, Ana Paula Spaniol, Andrew P. Bayliss, Timothy N. Welsh, Jay Pratt, Merryn D. Constable |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Action prediction
Male Adolescent Property (programming) Motor behavior Choice Behavior 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology 05 social sciences Sensorimotor system Ownership Degree (music) C800 Joint action Social Perception Joint (building) Female Psychology Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Psychological science. 27(10) |
| ISSN: | 1467-9280 0956-7976 |
| Popis: | When engaging in joint activities, humans tend to sacrifice some of their own sensorimotor comfort and efficiency to facilitate a partner’s performance. In the two experiments reported here, we investigated whether ownership—a socioculturally based nonphysical feature ascribed to objects—influenced facilitatory motor behavior in joint action. Participants passed mugs that differed in ownership status across a table to a partner. We found that participants oriented handles less toward their partners when passing their own mugs than when passing mugs owned by their partners (Experiment 1) and mugs owned by the experimenter (Experiment 2). These findings indicate that individuals plan and execute actions that assist their partners but do so to a smaller degree if it is the individuals’ own property that the partners intend to manipulate. We discuss these findings in terms of underlying variables associated with ownership and conclude that a self-other distinction can be found in the human sensorimotor system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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