Alcohol: taking a population perspective

A Control Perspective on Imaginal Perspective Taking

This contribution presents a computational cognitive model of imaginal perspective taking (IPT). The model is shown to account for major effects observed in IPT as well as concrete human data from an IPT experiment. Model development was based on the observation that control mechanisms play a central role in IPT performance. In taking this approach, model development and the model itself reveal...

Putting Perspective Taking in Perspective 1 Putting Perspective Taking in Perspective

We present a new framework for the discussion of perspective taking, particularly with reference to the processing of literary narrative. In this framework, adopting a perspective entails matching evaluations with those of the narrative character. This approach predicts that perspectives should be piecemeal rather than holistic, dynamic rather than consistent, effortful rather than automatic, a...

Alcohol and Crime: Taking Stock

Perspective taking in older age revisited: a motivational perspective.

How perspective-taking ability changes with age (i.e., whether older adults are better at understanding others' behaviors and intentions and show greater empathy to others or not) is not clear, with prior empirical findings on this phenomenon yielding mixed results. In a series of experiments, we investigated the phenomenon from a motivational perspective. Perceived closeness between participan...

A Cognitive Model for Spatial Perspective taking

When communicating with other people, one of the basic things that people must do is take others’ perspectives. Most of the experimental work on spatial language and perspective taking has focused on four frames of reference: exocentric (world-based, such as “Go north”), egocentric (self-based, “Turn to my left”), addressee-centered (otherbased, “Turn to your left”) and object-centric (objectba...