We know that the way we orient our social attentional resourses are influenced by cues provided by others (i.e. gaze direction, finger pointing, body orientation) and that the relationship between the perceiver and the observed person (i.e. social status) can influence the attention level we perform in relation to this cues. We want to know if there are other important attentional cues (such as hand grasping) and/or other important social cues (such as social stereotypes) that can influence the process of joint attention.
Hello,
as for stereotypes you could have a look here
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/2/20141055
and here
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025608
I hope this helps someway, cheers
Emotional expressions in the observed person could increase joint attention. In children, the called 'social referencing' is based on caregivers' emotional expressions. But there is an interesting distinction in this phenomenon. If in a context without joint action, children observe emotional expressions, they do not think that the actor's personal preference extends to other people. In contrast, in a context with joint attention, they apparently understand that the preference applies to others as well, i.e. they interpret it as a normative rule or a pedagogic instruction (see Csibra, 2010, paper in Mind and Language).
Analogously, joint attention to the observed person's action can be augmented if this action is deliberately made in a slow, 'showing' way. (Cf. motionese).
'Hand grasping' (which you mention) is a poweful cue for attention in all primates (Cf. mirror-neurons). But it is not a cue for joint attention.
Thinking somewhat out of the box here: Lakens et al. (2011) showed that rhythm (movement synchrony) is an indication of shared feelings of rapport, and refer to Tickle-Degnen & Rosenthal (1990) who relate this to mutual attention.
Lakens, D., & Stel, M. (2011). If they move in sync, they must feel in sync: Movement synchrony leads to attributions of rapport and entitativity. Social Cognition, 29(1), 1-14.
Tickle-Degnen, L., & Rosenthal, R. (1990). The nature of rapport and its nonverbal correlates. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 285-293.
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