Abstract
Perspective-taking has been one of the central concerns of work on social attention and developmental psychology for the past 60 years. Despite its prominence, there is no formal description of what it means to represent another’s viewpoint. The present article argues that such a description is now required in the form of theory—a theory that should address a number of issues that are central to the notion of assuming another’s viewpoint. After suggesting that the mental imagery debate provides a good framework for understanding some of the issues and problems surrounding perspective-taking, we set out nine points that we believe any theory of perspective-taking should consider.
Highlights
A major problem that afflicted one side of the imagery debate is an issue for the notion of perspective-taking. Both mental imagery and visual perspective-taking are concerned with representing a visual array that is not physically present, or at least in the case of the latter, an array that is different to the one seen by the observer
We suggest a possibility that is rarely entertained in the gaze cueing and perspective-taking literature; gaze direction is informative on only a very small proportion of the time we spend viewing another person’s gaze
We have argued that the perspective-taking notion needs reconsideration
Summary
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