How vertical elevation affects self-other integration as measured by the joint Simon effect
| Autor: | Kerstin Dittrich, Jasmin Richter, Dirkje Pril, Anouk van der Weiden, Joris Lammers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Emotions Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Task (project management) Vertical joint Simon task Power (social and political) Manipulation checks Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Reaction Time Psychology Humans Self-other integration Cooperative Behavior Joint (geology) media_common Simon effect General Medicine BF1-990 Action representation Elevation (emotion) Feeling Psychological Distance Power Elevation Construal level theory Psychomotor Performance Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta Psychologica, 220. Elsevier BV Acta Psychologica, Vol 220, Iss, Pp 103404-(2021) |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103404 |
| Popis: | Earlier findings suggest that positions of power decrease self-other integration and increase psychological distance to others. Until now, however, evidence for this relation rests exclusively on subjective measures. The current research instead employed a vertical joint Simon task to measure self-other integration. This task assesses the extent to which people represent their own actions in reference to their co-actor's, also referred to as the joint Simon effect. Building on cultural associations between power and vertical elevation, we manipulated whether participants were in an elevated (high-power) or lower (low-power) seating position. Experiments 1a and 1b reanalyzed existing datasets and found that elevated (vs. lower) seating position decreased the joint Simon effect, consistent with predictions. Experiment 2 provides a high-powered replication of this finding. Yet, further analyses revealed that feelings of power – measured as a manipulation check and indeed demonstrating that the manipulation was successful – did not mediate or moderate the effect of seating position on the joint Simon effect. Therefore, it is possible that the effect of seating elevation was driven through other aspects of that manipulation than feelings of power. We discuss these and suggest ways to test these alternative explanations. |
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