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Investigating social cognition with real people and with images of people| old_uid | 16048 |
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| title | Investigating social cognition with real people and with images of people |
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| start_date | 2018/06/15 |
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| schedule | 10h-11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Experimental research in the field of social cognition has been largely relying on measuring participants’ responses to images picturing socially relevant stimuli and events. This method has offered a precise control over the contents of the stimuli and, as a result, this research has been invaluable in increasing our knowledge about the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing of social information. However, at the same time, important aspects of natural social encounters have been absent in these studies. While the visual input from a face, for example, can be relatively similar independent of whether it originates from a face of a person who is physically present or from an image of her face, crucial differences nevertheless exist. Most importantly, the perceiver knows that the person in the image cannot see him/her, will not react anyhow to his/her behavior, and there cannot be any interaction between him/her and the pictured person. In this talk, I will describe recent research which has started to compare different types of responses to real and pictorial social stimuli and I will provide examples of studies showing great differences in the observed results. |
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| responsibles | Baratgin, Stilgenbauer |
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