A new look at joint attention and common knowledge

Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly little agreement on what exactly joint attention is, and how the jointness in it is achieved. Part of the proble...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cognition Jg. 189; S. 260 - 274
Hauptverfasser: Siposova, Barbora, Carpenter, Malinda
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2019
Elsevier Science Ltd
Schlagworte:
Attention
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive skills
Cognitive-behavioral factors
Commitments
Common knowledge
Common sense
Communication
Criticism
Joint action
Joint attention
Knowledge
Mental states
Second-person relations
Social cognition
Social interactions
Social perception
Typology
Joint attention
Commitments
Common knowledge
Second-person relations
Joint action
Communication
ISSN:0010-0277, 1873-7838, 1873-7838
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Zusammenfassung:Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly little agreement on what exactly joint attention is, and how the jointness in it is achieved. Part of the problem, we propose, is that joint attention is not a single process, but rather it includes a cluster of different cognitive skills and processes, and different researchers focus on different aspects of it. A similar problem applies to common knowledge. Here we present a new approach: We outline a typology of social attention levels which are currently all referred to in the literature as joint attention (from monitoring to common, mutual, and shared attention), along with corresponding levels of common knowledge. We consider cognitive, behavioral, and phenomenological aspects of the different levels as well as their different functions, and a key distinction we make in all of this is second-personal vs. third-personal relations. While we focus mainly on joint attention and common knowledge, we also briefly discuss how these levels might apply to other ‘joint’ mental states such as joint goals.
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ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.019