What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

Pfister, Roland; Weller, Lisa; Dignath, David; Kunde, Wilfried

doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1371-0

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“…Follow-up research has revealed that there are actually two components to the Bbeing imitated^advantage for the model. One component is that the identity of the imitator's response is the same as the model's response (Pfister, Weller, Dignath, & Kunde, 2017). The second component is the time point of the imitator's response-hence, the fact that responses follow quickly because the imitator generates the imitative response more quickly than the counterimitative response (Lelonkiewicz & Gambi, 2016).…”

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Sociomotor action control

2017

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Our actions affect the behavior of other people in predictable ways. In the present article, we describe a theoretical framework for action control in social contexts that we call sociomotor action control. This framework addresses how human agents plan and initiate movements that trigger responses from other people, and we propose that humans represent and control such actions literally in terms of the body movements they consistently evoke from observers. We review evidence for this approach and discuss commonalities and differences to related fields such as joint action, intention understanding, imitation, and interpersonal power. The sociomotor framework highlights a range of open questions pertaining to how representations of other persons' actions are linked to one's own motor activity, how specifically they contribute to action initiation, and how they affect the way we perceive the actions of others.

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Sociomotor action control

2017

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“…where the followers initiated their responses with constant speed, suggesting that it can be attributed to anticipation of response type rather than response speed (see also Pfister et al, 2017). Note, however, that the relevant statistical effect (i.e., the effect of upcoming response type for trials after compatible responses) was considerably smaller than in Experiment 1 (dz = 0.58 vs. dz = 1.10).…”

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“…Experiments 2 and 3 used the same task as Experiment 1 but with pre-programmed virtual followers replacing human followers. The main purpose of adopting this design was to allow full control over the timing of responses, while retaining the manipulation of response compatibility (as in Pfister et al, 2017). Specifically, we held the speed with which the followers initiated their responses constant, so we could investigate whether anticipation of the follower's response type affected leaders' actions independently from any phenomena related to response speed.…”

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Action–effect anticipation and temporal adaptation in social interactions.

Lelonkiewicz

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Interacting agents may anticipate their partner's upcoming response and include it in their action plan. In turn, observing an overt response can trigger agents to adapt. But while anticipation and adaptation are known to shape action control, their interplay in social interactions remains largely unexplored. In four experiments, we asked how both of these mechanisms could contribute to one striking phenomenon: Agents initiate actions faster when they know their partner will produce a compatible rather than an incompatible response. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the compatibility between agents' actions and partners' responses, and investigated the interplay between adaptation and anticipation within the same dyadic interaction. In Experiments 2-4 we isolated the contribution of each of the two mechanisms by having agents interact with virtual partners whose responses could be experimentally controlled. We found that adaptation and anticipation exert parallel but independent effects on action execution: Participants initiated their actions more quickly when the upcoming partner response was compatible and, independently, when their partner had responded more quickly on the preceding trial. These findings elucidate models of action control in social interactions.This study suggests that our behavior in social interactions is affected by a tendency to anticipate how our interaction partner will respond and, independently, by a tendency to adapt to the speed of their previous responses. These findings help shed light on the mechanisms that allow people to coordinate with each other in social interactions.

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“…Studies on ideomotor learning through actual practice have demonstrated how action control can be affected by learned associations between actions and a wide range of environmentrelated effects (for reviews see, Hommel, 2013;Shin et al, 2010). Furthermore, consistent with the fact that most actions involve not only consequences in the physical world, but also consequences on the behavior of other people (Kunde et al, 2018), there is accumulating evidence that effect-based action control extends to social action effects (Flach, Press, Badets, & Heyes, 2010;Pfister, Weller, Dignath, & Kunde, 2017). Recent work has also demonstrated how self-performed actions and their affective outcomes become associated, influencing later action control (Eder, Rothermund, de Houwer, & Hommel, 2015;Hommel, Lippelt, Gurbuz, & Pfister, 2017).…”

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Social learning of action-effect associations: Modulation of action control following observation of virtual action’s effects

Belhassein

Marshall

Badets

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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A core assumption of ideomotor theory is that learned bidirectional associations between actions and their effects enable agents to select and initiate actions by anticipating their sensory consequences. Although the acquisition of bidirectional Action-Effect (A-E) associations built on the experience of one's own movements has received considerable empirical support, the available evidence for A-E learning through the observation of others' actions and their effects remains limited. In two experiments, we tested whether A-E associations could be acquired through social learning in an experimental setup involving observation of virtual actions. In an acquisition phase, participants repeatedly observed finger movements on a screen, and each movement was consistently followed by a specific effect tone. In the subsequent test phase, tones were presented as imperative stimuli in a reaction time task. In both experiments, reaction times were shorter when tones required the same response with which they had been linked in the preceding observation phase, compared to when they required a different response, revealing the impact of A-E associations acquired through observation. Similar results were obtained whether the movements observed during the acquisition phase were spatially aligned (Experiment 1) or not (Experiment 2) with participants' responses in the test phase, ruling out the possibility that the results merely reflect spatial compatibility effects. Our findings add new evidence for an acquisition of A-E associations through observation. Importantly, we generalize this acquisition process to the observation of virtual actions. These findings further confirm effectbased action control, as proposed by ideomotor theory.

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What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

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Sociomotor action control

Sociomotor action control

Action–effect anticipation and temporal adaptation in social interactions.

Social learning of action-effect associations: Modulation of action control following observation of virtual action’s effects

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