Taking Perspective in Conversation: The Role of Mutual Knowledge in Comprehension

By Boaz Keysar, Dale J. Barr, Jennifer A. Balin, Jason S. Brauner. Psychology Science, 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Speakers' eye gaze disambiguates referring expressions early during face-to-face conversation (2007, background): “To achieve control, studies of spoken utterance interpretation often have the same or similar utterance spoken by a confederate (Hanna, 2001; Keysar et al., 2000; Metzing & Brennan, 2003), although some studies have used naive speakers (Brown-Schmidt, Campana, & Tanenhaus, 2005; Brown-Schmidt, Gun”
Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction (2004, background): “In the current experiments, the speed with which participants fixate their eyes on a target can be interpreted as the speed with which they consider an object as a possible referent (Keysar et al., 2000; Spivey & Tannenhaus, 1998).”
Conversation and Coordinative Structures (2009, background): “In previous ‘‘reference game’’ studies of visual common ground (e.g., Hanna, Tanenhaus, & Trueswell, 2003; Keysar, Barr, Balin, & Brauner, 2000 ), these factors are not separated, and the linguistic interaction is a monolog directed at objects on display.”
Revisiting the Evaluation of Theory of Mind through Question Answering (2019, background): “…playing a role in how humans learn the meaning of words (Bloom, 2002), distinguish beliefs from reality (Gopnik and Astington, 1988), predict people’s behavior (Wimmer and Perner, 1983), understand what others refer to, and reduce ambiguity in conversation (Clark, 1981; Keysar et al., 2000).”
Reference production: Production-internal and addressee-oriented processes (2008, background): “The typical experimental scenario for studying the role of visual perspective is to have pairs of participants communicate about objects in a scene, where some objects are occluded from the perspective of one participant (Arnold, Trueswell, & Lawentmann, 1999 ; Hanna, Tanenhaus, & Trueswell, 2003 ”
The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency (2010, result): “This explanation would be in line with the Perspective Adjustment model of Keysar and colleagues (Barr & Keysar, 2006; Epley, Morewedge, & Keysar, 2004; Keysar, Barr, Balin, & Brauner, 2000 ).”
Online usage of theory of mind continues to develop in late adolescence. (2010, methodology): “Keysar et al. (2000, 2003) report that adults frequently fail to use their conceptual competence for theory of mind in an online communication game in which they need to take account of a speaker’s perspective.”