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Todd, Andrew R., Forstmann, Matthias, Burgmer, Pascal ORCID: 0000-0003-3664-0539, Brooks, Alison Wood and Galinsky, Adam D. (2015). Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking. J. Exp. Psychol.-Gen., 144 (2). S. 374 - 392. WASHINGTON: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. ISSN 1939-2222

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Abstract

People frequently feel anxious. Although prior research has extensively studied how feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety on perceptual and conceptual forms of perspective taking. Compared with participants experiencing other negative, high-arousal emotions (i.e., anger or disgust) or neutral feelings, anxious participants displayed greater egocentrism in their mental-state reasoning: They were more likely to describe an object using their own spatial perspective, had more difficulty resisting egocentric interference when identifying an object from others' spatial perspectives, and relied more heavily on privileged knowledge when inferring others' beliefs. Using both experimental-causal-chain and measurement-of-mediation approaches, we found that these effects were explained, in part, by uncertainty appraisal tendencies. Further supporting the role of uncertainty, a positive emotion associated with uncertainty (i.e., surprise) produced increases in egocentrism that were similar to anxiety. Collectively, the results suggest that incidentally experiencing emotions associated with uncertainty increase reliance on one's own egocentric perspective when reasoning about the mental states of others.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Todd, Andrew R. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Forstmann, Matthias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Burgmer, Pascal UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-0539 UNSPECIFIED Brooks, Alison Wood UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Galinsky, Adam D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-408324
DOI:	10.1037/xge0000048
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Psychol.-Gen.
Volume:	144
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 374 - 392
Date:	2015
Publisher:	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1939-2222
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DECISION-MAKING; FALSE BELIEFS; MIND USE; ANXIETY; SELF; ADULTS; ADJUSTMENT; JUDGMENT Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40832