The authors propose that people adopt others' perspectives by serially adjusting from their
own. As predicted, estimates of others' perceptions were consistent with one's own but�…

Taking another person's perspective is widely presumed to increase interpersonal
understanding. Very few experiments, however, have actually tested whether perspective�…

Although persons who have labored to change self-concepts in naturally occurring
situations have often experienced difficulty, researchers have reported considerable�…

Important asymmetries between self-perception and social perception arise from the simple
fact that other people's actions, judgments, and priorities sometimes differ from one's own�…

The current research adopted a multipronged mediational approach to test an associative
self-anchoring account of automatic intergroup evaluation change following perspective�…

Evaluates the importance of social comparison. The chapter focuses primarily on the
importance of social comparison relative to 2 other sources of information about the self�…

Children generally behave more egocentrically than adults when assessing another's
perspective. We argue that this difference does not, however, indicate that adults process�…

Simulation theories of social cognition suggest that people use their own mental states to
understand those of others—particularly similar others. However, perceivers cannot rely�…

Publisher Summary The chapter presents evidence consistent with the observations of
Roethke and Vargas Llosa that introspection can be disruptive. The focus is on one type of�…

Using 3 experiments, the authors explored the role of perspective-taking in debiasing social
thought. In the 1st 2 experiments, perspective-taking was contrasted with stereotype�…