Shared reality and abstraction: The social nature of predictive models

Rossignac-Milon, Maya; Pinelli, Federica; Higgins, E. Tory

doi:10.1017/s0140525x19003212

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“…When a person adopts the perspective of a collective agent while reflecting on the belief that the comedian is funny, there is a unified social perspective on the comedian, leaving no other co-observer whose perspective may be in doubt. Supporting this view are empirical literatures on collective attention (e.g., Shteynberg, 2015a, 2015b, 2018), shared reality (e.g., Rossignac-Milon et al, 2020), collective efficacy (Bandura, 2000), group emotions (E. R. Smith & Mackie, 2015), and I-sharing (e.g., Pinel et al, 2006), which, we believe, suggest that collective psychological states prepare people for collective action by synchronizing cognition and motivation (e.g., Bandura, 2000; Shteynberg, 2010; Shteynberg et al, 2016; Shteynberg & Galinsky, 2011), affect and attitudes (e.g., Echterhoff et al, 2009; Rossignac-Milon et al, 2021; E.…”

Section: Social Identity and Collective Agencymentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Matching representations of co-experienced objects is critical and can emerge from several processes. Some research suggests that when aiming to share interpretations of co-experienced objects, for example, people raise their level of abstraction to create a common field of understanding (Rossignac-Milon et al, 2020). Another possibility is that engaging in collective experiences increases the salience of any social identities that are shared with co-attendees.…”

Section: Looking Forward: Collective Agency and Social Identity In Hu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agency and Identity in the Collective Self

Shteynberg

Hirsh

Garthoff

et al. 2021

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Contemporary research on human sociality is heavily influenced by the social identity approach, positioning social categorization as the primary mechanism governing social life. Building on the distinction between agency and identity in the individual self (“I” vs. “Me”), we emphasize the analogous importance of distinguishing collective agency from collective identity (“We” vs. “Us”). While collective identity is anchored in the unique characteristics of group members, collective agency involves the adoption of a shared subjectivity that is directed toward some object of our attention, desire, emotion, belief, or action. These distinct components of the collective self are differentiated in terms of their mental representations, neurocognitive underpinnings, conditions of emergence, mechanisms of social convergence, and functional consequences. Overall, we show that collective agency provides a useful complement to the social categorization approach, with unique implications for multiple domains of human social life, including collective action, responsibility, dignity, violence, dominance, ritual, and morality.

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Section: Social Identity and Collective Agencymentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Looking Forward: Collective Agency and Social Identity In Hu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Agency and Identity in the Collective Self

Shteynberg

Hirsh

Garthoff

et al. 2021

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…But individuals do not only spontaneously use abstraction to traverse distance, abstraction does actually afford the overcoming of social distance by broadening one’s social scope. That is, abstraction moves attention away from the egocentric “me here and now” toward the “we” that subsumes “me” and “you” (Rossignac-Milon et al, 2020). For instance, manipulated abstraction facilitates visual perspective-taking (Libby et al, 2009), the use of more first-person plural pronouns (“We/Us”) than first-person singular pronouns (“I/Me”; Yin et al, 2022), and a cognitive orientation that encourages broader, more inclusive categorization (Levy et al, 2002; Wakslak et al, 2008), supporting the idea of a broader social scope when thinking abstractly (vs. concretely).…”

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Abstraction Allows Susceptibility to the Perspective of Others: The Case of Decreased Public Self-Awareness Due to Concrete Thinking

Hansen,

Neumeier,

Höller

2023

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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The ability to process information abstractly functions to traverse psychological distance and expand one’s mental horizons. Therefore, abstract (vs. concrete) thinking may expand (vs. contract) one’s social scope. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that concrete (vs. abstract) processing makes one less (vs. more) susceptible to the perspective of others, attenuating (vs. increasing) public—but not private—self-awareness. Four studies (total N = 708) tested this idea. In a pilot study, a positive correlation between abstraction and public (but not private) self-awareness was found. In Studies 1a, 1b, and 2, manipulated concrete (vs. abstract) thinking reduced public self-awareness but not private self-awareness. Study 1b additionally indicated that public self-awareness was reduced by concrete thinking rather than increased by abstract thinking. Study 2 also investigated the effect of abstraction on social anxiety and embarrassment. It was demonstrated that concrete (relative abstract) thinking indirectly reduced social anxiety and embarrassment via public self-awareness. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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“…Many trained in the sciences learn to think of reality as a singularity. The scientific approach to discovery assumes that reality is one thing, experienced by many as a shared reality (Rossignac-Milon et al, 2020). Parts of it can be verified as true empirically through replicable experimentation.…”

Section: Is Reality a Reality? How Science And Real-life Differmentioning

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Why People Perceive Messages Differently: The Theory of Cognitive Mapping

Cohen

2020

InformingSciJ

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Aim/Purpose: The paper introduces new concepts including cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, and message resonance. Background: This paper draws upon philosophy, psychology, physiology, communications, and introspection to develop the theory of cognitive mapping. Methodology: Theory development Contribution: The theory offers new ways to conceptualize the informing process. Findings: Cognitive mapping has a far-reaching explanatory power on message resonance. Recommendation for Researchers: The theory of cognitive mapping offers a new conceptualization for those exploring the informing process that is ripe for exploration and theory testing. Future Research: This paper forms a building block toward the development of a fuller model of the informing process.

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Shared reality and abstraction: The social nature of predictive models

Cited by 4 publications

References 165 publications

Agency and Identity in the Collective Self

Agency and Identity in the Collective Self

Abstraction Allows Susceptibility to the Perspective of Others: The Case of Decreased Public Self-Awareness Due to Concrete Thinking

Why People Perceive Messages Differently: The Theory of Cognitive Mapping

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