Communicative Perspective-taking: The Egocentric Bias and the Role of Executive Function (의사소통 조망수용: 자기중심적 편향성과 실행기능의 역할)

Hyeon Jin Lee (이현진); 권은영; 전시현

Communicative Perspective-taking: The Egocentric Bias and the Role of Executive Function

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2016, 29(4), pp.81-100
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Hyeon Jin Lee ¹, 권은영 ¹, 전시현 ¹

¹영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

We attempted to investigate whether egocentric biases are common in communicative perspective- taking and whether individual differences in communicative perspective-taking could be attributed to executive function. Twenty six 4-year-old children and 20 college students were tested. The results indicated that both children and adults took their egocentric perspectives at the beginning stage, but adults switched these to another’s perspective very quickly. Therefore egocentric perspective-taking occurred more often in children than in adults. These findings could be interpreted in terms of the dual-process account proposed by Keysar et al. We also explored the relationship between communicative perspective-taking and executive function. The results indicated that individual differences in communicative perspective-taking were correlated with inhibitory control and working memory in both children and adults. However, inhibitory control was the only variable that predicted communicative perspective-taking in children and adults.

KEYWORDS

communicative perspective-taking, egocentric bias, privileged ground condition, common ground condition, executive function, inhibitory control

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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