Magnitude Estimation Is Influenced by Social Power

Abstract: The action-specific perception account suggests that how people perceive the environment depends on their ability to act on it, assuming that estimation is influenced by inter-individual traits, but also by situated states. Moreover, several studies revealed that social power affects basic cognitive processes and even influences the way we perceive the physical environment. In the present study, we examined whether social power also influences estimation performance of spatial magnitudes (i.e., line estimation). Participants estimated the line length of a given number in an increase and a decrease condition, after (low versus high) social power had been manipulated between participants via role assignment. In the increase condition, low-power participants overestimated line lengths, whereas such a bias was not observed for high-power participants. In contrast, the power manipulation did not affect performance in the decrease condition, suggesting that proportion-judgement strategie.... https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/5723

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Magnitude Estimation Is Influenced by Social Power ; volume:3 ; number:2 ; day:22 ; month:12 ; year:2017 ; Journal of numerical cognition ; 3, Heft 2 (22.12.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Huber, Stefan ; Bloechle, Johannes ; Dackermann, Tanja ; Scholl, Annika ; Sassenberg, Kai ; Moeller, Korbinian

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jnc.v3i2.52
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004195947177516
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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