Activity
Talk at the Experimental Psychology Society, London Meeting, January 2025Description
Four studies investigate how we experience our own sense of agency (SoA) when we think we interact directly with another person, measured both implicitly through temporal binding, and explicitly through judgments of relatedness, between action and reaction. Participants press a key on a keyboard and see another person’s hand on the screen reacting to them doing the same, with 200-2000ms action-reaction intervals. In the social condition, participants think they and a confederate see each other’s hands live via webcams. In the non-social condition, they think they watch a video. Two experiments show stronger overall implicit SoA in social compared to non-social conditions, largely independent of action-reaction interval. In contrast, two explicit SoA experiments show the inverse pattern for short time durations (<500ms), and whereas non-social SoA depends on temporal contiguity, social SoA is maximal only at longer action-reaction intervals (1000ms), remaining above non-social SoA for all longer intervals. We investigate whether this is due to participants taking into account decision time of a volitional agent. We discuss how SoA may be impacted by perceiving others as independent agents, and propose a framework whereby action outcome predictions depend on both temporal contiguity and expectations about social reciprocity.| Period | 8 Jan 2025 |
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| Event title | Experimental Psychology Society London Meeting |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Londen, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |