Title |
Increasing self–other integration through divergent thinking
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Published in |
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February 2013
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DOI | 10.3758/s13423-013-0413-4 |
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Authors |
Lorenza S. Colzato, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Bernhard Hommel |
Abstract |
Increasing evidence suggests that people may cognitively represent themselves and others just like any other, nonsocial event. Here, we provide evidence that the degree of self-other integration (as reflected by the joint Simon effect; JSE) is systematically affected by the control characteristics of temporally overlapping but unrelated and nonsocial creativity tasks. In particular, the JSE was found to be larger in the context of a divergent-thinking task (alternate uses task) than in the context of a convergent-thinking task (remote association task). This suggests that self-other integration and action corepresentation are controlled by domain-general cognitive-control parameters that regulate the integrativeness (strong vs. weak top-down control and a resulting narrow vs. broad attentional focus) of information processing irrespective of its social implications. |
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