Shared Reality: Experiencing Commonality with others' Inner States about the World

By Gerald Echterhoff, E. Tory Higgins, John M. Levine. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2009

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A prisoner of one's own mind: Identifying and understanding existential isolation (2017, background): “As beings who construct reality socially (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Echterhoff et al., 2009; Hardin & Higgins, 1996; Swann & Bosson, 2010), we rely on others to confirm our conceptions of reality.”
To Err is Human(-like): Effects of Robot Gesture on Perceived Anthropomorphism and Likability (2013, background): “Their degree of shared reality with the robot was evaluated based on three further items which tap perceptions of similarity and experienced psychological closeness to the robot [6].”
Would You Trust a (Faulty) Robot? Effects of Error, Task Type and Personality on Human-Robot Cooperation and Trust (2015, methodology): “Psychological Closeness: To assess participants’ degree of psychological closeness to the robot [5], we administered the following five items: “How much do you think you have in common with the robot?”, “How close do you feel to the robot?”, “Would you like to interact with the robot again?”, “How p”
The Leader–Member Exchange Relationship (2016, background): “This finding lends support to our position that the creation of shared realities in dyadic relationships is at the core of relationship dynamics and maintenance as implied by an emerging body of research in social psychology (e.g., Echterhoff et al., 2005, 2009; Hardin & Higgins, 1996).”
How do forward models work? And why would you want them? (2013, unknown): “) This account can therefore explain tight coupling of joint activity, as well as the experience of “shared reality” that occurs when A and B realize that they are experiencing the world in similar ways (Echterhoff et al. 2009).”