Increasing self–other integration through divergent thinking
- Lorenza S. Colzato,
- Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg,
- Bernhard Hommel
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Abstract
Increasing evidence suggests that people may cognitively represent themselves and others just like any other, nonsocial event. Here, we provide evidence that the degree of self–other integration (as reflected by the joint Simon effect; JSE) is systematically affected by the control characteristics of temporally overlapping but unrelated and nonsocial creativity tasks. In particular, the JSE was found to be larger in the context of a divergent-thinking task (alternate uses task) than in the context of a convergent-thinking task (remote association task). This suggests that self–other integration and action corepresentation are controlled by domain-general cognitive-control parameters that regulate the integrativeness (strong vs. weak top-down control and a resulting narrow vs. broad attentional focus) of information processing irrespective of its social implications.
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- Title
- Increasing self–other integration through divergent thinking
- Journal
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Volume 20, Issue 5 , pp 1011-1016
- Cover Date
- 2013-10-01
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13423-013-0413-4
- Print ISSN
- 1069-9384
- Online ISSN
- 1531-5320
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
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- Control state
- Joint Simon effect
- Joint action
- Self–other integration
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
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Lorenza S. Colzato
(1)
(2)
(4)
- Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg (3)
- Bernhard Hommel (1) (2)
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Lorenza S. Colzato
- Author Affiliations
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- 1. Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2. Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 4. Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 3. Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behaviour (Acacia) Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands