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Genschow, Oliver ORCID: 0000-0001-6322-4392 and Gross-Boelting, Johanna (2021). The Role of Attention in Anticipated Action Effects. J. Exp. Psychol.-Hum. Percept. Perform., 47 (3). S. 323 - 331. WASHINGTON: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. ISSN 1939-1277

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Abstract

Past research has shown that merely anticipating a certain action in someone else leads observers to engage in the anticipated action-a phenomenon called anticipated action. In a standard experiment on anticipated action. participants watch video clips of a model engaging in triggering events such as nose wrinkling or hair falling. A typical finding is that participants engage in more nose actions while watching the nose wrinkling video than while watching the hair falling video and vice versa for the engagement in hair actions. Whereas past research has suggested that this effect is due to inferring a desire in others to act, an alternative explanation is that observing a triggering event in someone else guides attention toward respective body parts. facilitating any action toward this body part. In two experiments we set this explanation to a critical test. The results speak against attention as driving process and in favor of inferring a desire in others to act, because guiding attention to the location of the triggering event did not result in anticipated action effects. This result has important implications for research on anticipative processes and imitative behavior.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Genschow, Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6322-4392 UNSPECIFIED Gross-Boelting, Johanna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-564281
DOI:	10.1037/xhp0000883
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Psychol.-Hum. Percept. Perform.
Volume:	47
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 323 - 331
Date:	2021
Publisher:	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1939-1277
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PERCEPTION; IMITATION; MECHANISMS; INTENTION; MOVEMENT; MIMICRY; POWER Multiple languages Psychology; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56428