Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Humans are highly social creatures. Evidence from the dotperspective task suggests that humans automatically track theperspective of other individuals – a disposition that, if true,may help to facilitate social interaction. However, variants ofthe original dot perspective task suggest the alternativeinterpretation that the effect in the task is not due toperspective taking. Here, we present a new variant, usingimproved stimuli to address these issues. Our results replicateprevious findings, across both animate and inanimate stimuli,and suggest that the effect is due to directional cueing ratherthan automatic perspective taking.