Taking Another Person's Perspective Increases Self-Referential Neural Processing

Ames, Daniel L.; Jenkins, Adrianna C.; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Mitchell, Jason P.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02135.x

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Taking Another Person's Perspective Increases Self-Referential Neural Processing

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Ames, Daniel L., Jenkins, Adrianna C., Banaji, Mahzarin R., Mitchell, Jason P.·2008·Psychological Science

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The ability to adopt the perspective of another person has been identified as a critical component of social functioning that pre-dicts level of empathic concern for other individuals (Davis, 1983) and level of category-based responding toward out-groups (Gal-insky&Moskowitz, 2000).One explanation for these effects holds that in taking another person’s perspective, one comes to treat that person as more ‘‘selflike’’; indeed, the extent to which perceivers describe another person as sharing their own personality attri-butes increases after they imagine an event from that person’s perspective (Davis, Conklin, Smith, & Luce, 1996). An alterna-tive explanation, however, is that perspective taking might lead only to a shift in non-self-based social-cognitive processes de-ployed when considering the minds of others (Mitchell, Heath-erton, &Macrae, 2002). How exactly does taking another person’s perspective lead to greater overlap between self and other?

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The involvement of the anterior PFC may reflect self-oriented processing, as the anterior PFC is implicated in perspective-taking, prospection, and self-reflection.
“Its involvement may reflect self-oriented processing, as the anterior PFC is implicated in perspective-taking (Ames et al., 2008), prospection (Addis et al., 2007) and self-reflection (Modinos et al., 2009).”
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Authors: Ames, D. L., Jenkins, A. C., Banaji, M. R., & Mitchell, J. P.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author: Mitchell, Jason P.
ORCID: Jenkins, Adrianna C.
Banaji, Mahzarin R.
Mitchell, Jason P.
Venue: Psychological Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008-07
Volume: 19
Issue: 7
Pages: 642-644
ISSN: 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
1467-9280
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02135.x
OpenAlex: W2105535286
Cited by: 162
References: 6
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 38.20
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
nrs.harvard.edu
Licence: cc-by
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders: National Center for Research Resources (P41-RR-14075, P41RR014075)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords: perspective taking, self-referential processing, self-other overlap, social cognition, empathy, theory of mind, self-concept
MeSH terms: Attitude, Brain, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Judgment, Male, Personality, Self Concept, Social Perception

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