Back to Basics: Socially Facilitated Situated Cognition

Fonseca, Ricardo Jorge Rodrigues Moita da; Garcia‐Marques, Teresa

doi:10.1521/soco.2013.31.2.147

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“…As such, it is possible that the presence of others, instead of engaging individuals in a task, makes them more sensitive to the context. In line with this hypothesis, Fonseca and Garcia-Marques (2010) have demonstrated that, compared to an alone situation, the presence of others increases the amount of contextrelated free-associations (experiment 1) and the accuracy for estimation judgments that require the integration of contextual information (experiment 3). This context-sensitivity hypothesis can also be found in social facilitation evidence that shows that accompanied individuals have better recall for contextual aspects of the task-situation, (Sanders, Baron & Moore, 1978) and make greater use of contextual cues when forming an impression of a target (Thomas et al, 2002).…”

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Familiarity, Challenge, and Processing of Persuasion Messages

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Fonseca²,

Blascovich³

2015

Social Cognition

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Well, it has been a long journey since the beginning of this dissertation. I have learned so much and experienced so many things throughout this process that I am afraid I have no words to express my gratitude to all the people involved in it. But here is an honest and brief attempt. Firstly, I would like to thank FCT for the financial support which made the accomplishment of this dissertation possible. Secondly, but most important, I would like to thank both my advisors. Teresa, thank you for teaching me all you know. Thank you for putting so much effort and vision on this dissertation. Thank you for standing by me even when the times were rough and for giving me all the "frustrations" that I needed to become a stronger researcher. I am sure that, without your dedication, this dissertation would not have the quality it has. Jim, thank you for teaching me all you know. Thank you for the way you receive me at UCSB. It is not easy to leave your country and go to the other side of the planet, but you sure made it easier. I learned a lot in your labmeetings. I am sure I am a more complete researcher because of your advices and teachings. For all the emotional support, I also would like to thank my parents, my big brother, my sister and my aunt. And Carlos. And Ricardo. It was surely important to lie on your shoulders when the times got tough. Words are not enough to express my gratitude for your love. I also would like to thank my colleagues for their inputs and friendship. Mariana, Ana,

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Section: Farm Modelmentioning

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Familiarity, Challenge, and Processing of Persuasion Messages

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Blascovich³

2015

Social Cognition

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“…Being so, presence of others may, in some way, help us to attend to those goals. One possible way can be the fact that it promotes more access to context features and so access to detailed features of a face (Fonseca & Garcia-Marques, 2013) which help to better detect differences between faces.…”

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“…in the Stroop task; Huguet et al, 1999) or impairment. In addition to evidence suggesting that SP increases reliance on well-learned responses and activity of executive control functions, there is also evidence that SP increases the "spreading out" of one's thoughts (Allport, 1920) increasing individuals' sensitivity to contextual influences (Fonseca & Garcia-Marques, 2013).…”

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“…The fact that SP spreads our thoughts increasing context sensibility (Fonseca & Garcia-Marques, 2013), could by itself lead us to think that configuration effects will be increased in the presence of others, since there will be an increase of attention allocation to the irrelevant face half. However, this increased allocation of attention to context does not necessarily increase holistic processing.…”

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Social presence and the composite face effect

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A robust finding in social psychology research is that performance is modulated by the social nature of a given context, promoting social inhibition or facilitation effects. In the present experiment, we examined if and how social presence impacts holistic face perception processes by asking participants, in the presence of others and alone, to perform the composite face task. Results suggest that completing the task in the presence of others (i.e., mere co-action) is associated with better performance in face recognition (less bias and higher discrimination between presented and non-presented targets) and with a reduction in the composite face effect. These results make clear that social presence impact on the composite face effect does not occur because presence increases reliance on holistic processing as a "dominant" well-learned response, but instead, because it increases monitoring of the interference produced by automatic response.

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“…167–168). Recently, Fonseca and Garcia-Marques [ 2 ], using a task that measures sensitivity to contextual information–framed-line test [ 3 ], showed further evidence of this effect. The authors asked participants to reproduce a previously observed line identically (absolute task) or proportionally (relative task) in a new surrounding frame.…”

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Seeing the Big Picture: Size Perception Is More Context Sensitive in the Presence of Others

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This paper tests the hypothesis that social presence influences size perception by increasing context sensitivity. Consistent with Allport’s prediction, we expected to find greater context sensitivity in participants who perform a visual task in the presence of other people (i.e., in co-action) than in participants who perform the task in isolation. Supporting this hypothesis, participants performing an Ebbinghaus illusion-based task in co-action showed greater size illusions than those performing the task in isolation. Specifically, participants in a social context had greater difficulty perceiving the correct size of a target circle and ignoring its surroundings. Analyses of delta plot functions suggest a mechanism of interference monitoring, since that when individuals take longer to respond, they are better able to ignore the surrounding circles. However, this type of monitoring interference was not moderated by social presence. We discuss how this lack of moderation might be the reason why the impact of social presence on context sensitivity is able to be detected in tasks such as the Ebbinghaus illusion.

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Back to Basics: Socially Facilitated Situated Cognition

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Familiarity, Challenge, and Processing of Persuasion Messages

Familiarity, Challenge, and Processing of Persuasion Messages

Social presence and the composite face effect

Seeing the Big Picture: Size Perception Is More Context Sensitive in the Presence of Others

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