Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《心理科学进展》
Abstract： Social interaction can be defined as a process that one individual delivers his communicative intention through body or spoken languages, and the other individual makes a reaction according to his understanding of the intention. As inherently social beings, humans are equipped with a remarkable ability to rapidly recognize and decipher the communicative intentions embedded in others’ social interaction. This ability is not only fundamental to the development and survival of humans, but also to our daily interpersonal interaction. Recently, researchers have attached great importance to the cognitive characteristics and neural mechanisms underlying the social interaction processing from the third-person perspective. In their experiments, social interaction can be displayed through pictures, videos, the movements of point-light figures, and even simple geometric shapes that depicting biological motions. There are some prerequisites for ones’ activities being perceived as engaging in social interaction. Specifically, two agents should be spatially close and face-to-face, and their actions should be temporally contingent on each other and have definite meanings. Overall, there are two main cognitive characteristics manifested by the perception of social interaction: configuration integrity and action contingency. On the one hand, facing dyads engaging in social interaction would be represented as a single, holistic unit rather than as two independent individuals. By virtual of the global configuration processing, social interactive agents would gain preferential attention and be efficiently stored in memory. On the other hand, the interactive activities are temporally contingent and semantically related, which suggests that they may be processed in a contingent and predictive manner. Such action contingency processing allows observers to predict the upcoming interactive action, which thereby promotes the discrimination of social interaction in noisy environments. The social interaction processing activates three neural networks. The person-perception network is responsible for face and body perception, the action observation network engages in action recognition, and the mentalizing network is implicated in intention understanding. Among them, the person perception network is probably linked to representations of the global configuration of the interactive agents while the action observation network and the mentalizing network collectively support representations of the contingent actions of the interactive agents. It is also worth noting that the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) plays a key role and may serve as a specialized node in the perception of social interaction. From the perspective of hierarchical processing, recent researchers highlighted the importance of the effective connectivity between relevant brain areas in different stages of the social interaction processing. Future studies are encouraged to explore the heritability and neural mechanism of the social interaction processing by combining various technological methods, and to elucidate the cognitive characteristics of the social interaction processing in patients with social-cognitive disorders, which may provide new insights into the diagnosis and intervention for social deficits.
Subjects: Psychology >> Cognitive Psychology submitted time 2020-11-02
Abstract： The ability to recognize and decipher social interaction of others from a third-person perspective is critical for our daily life. There are two cognitive characteristics accounting for the processing of social interaction: configural integrity and action contingency. A hierarchical neural basis underpins social interaction processing in which the person perception network, the action observation network and the mentalizing network are concurrently engaged, wherein the posterior superior temporal sulcus plays a crucial role. Future research needs to explore the heredity of social interaction, to elucidate its underlying cognitive and neural mechanism by combining various technological methods, and to focus on its application in real life. " "
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Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology submitted time 2019-01-21
Abstract： " The Microblog behavioral data of typical disaster-stricken areas under the Impact of Typhoon Mangosteen (Guangdong) and non-disaster areas (Anhui) were selected to test the psychological typhoon eye effect from two dimensions of time and space with the method of big data analysis. The results show that there are differences of attention degree in the time dimension, but there is no "high-low-high" psychological typhoon eye pattern in the affected areas. Specifically, the attention of the affected areas after the transit of typhoon is higher than that before the transit of typhoon, while there is no significant difference of the attention of typhoon between the time periods before, during and after the transit. There is no significant difference between the disaster-stricken areas and the non-disaster areas in the dimension of spatial. Limitations of the study are mainly analyzed in order to provide relevant thinking and reference for future research.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology Subjects: Safety Science and Technology >> Safety Social Science submitted time 2019-01-21
Abstract： "The Microblog behavioral data of typical disaster-stricken areas under the Impact of Typhoon Mangosteen (Guangdong) and non-disaster areas (Anhui) were selected to test the psychological typhoon eye effect from two dimensions of time and space with the method of big data analysis. The results show that there are differences of attention degree in the time dimension, but there is no "high-low-high" psychological typhoon eye pattern in the affected areas. Specifically, the attention of the affected areas after the transit of typhoon is higher than that before the transit of typhoon, while there is no significant difference of the attention of typhoon between the time periods before, during and after the transit. There is no significant difference between the disaster-stricken areas and the non-disaster areas in the dimension of spatial. Limitations of the study are mainly analyzed in order to provide relevant thinking and reference for future research.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
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