Liang Huang
Minnan Normal University, China
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Exp Psychol
Statement of the Problem:
Understanding different kinds
of communicative intentions
conveyed by others is
essential for successful human
interaction. However, the
gender effects of the observers
and actors/actresses in
processing the kind and hostiles
communicative intentions
within social interactions are
largely unknown.
Methodology & Theoretical
Orientation: In order to
explore the gender effects
in understanding kind and
hostile intentions (versus noninteractive
intention) displayed
by dyadic individualsâ?? whole
body movement, we recorded
the accuracy and reaction
time (RT) when participants
performed the intention
inference task. Sixty college
students were recruited to
participate in the experiment.
Findings: Both significant
main effects of the gender
of observers and actors/
actresses on the accuracy
existed, which showed
female observers performed
better than the males on
intention understanding and
demonstrated a prominent male
actorsâ?? advantage, respectively.
The results also indicated higher
accuracies and shorter RTs in
hostile intention understanding,
which were consistent with
the negative bias theory.
Notably, a significant interaction
effect between the gender
of actors/actresses and
intention conditions on RTs
was found. It showed longer
RTs on understanding the
kind intentions of actors
than those of actresses while
understanding hostile intentions
showed a reverse pattern.
Meanwhile, neither main effect
of the gender of the observers
nor interaction effects between
the gender of observers and
other independent factors on
the RTs were found.
Conclusion & Significance:
The evidence demonstrated
that the behavioral processing
underlying social intentions
understanding may vary
with different types of
communicative intentions,
which was also modulated
by the gender of the actors/
actresses. The study may help to
understand gender vulnerability
to neuropsychiatric impairments
in social intentions reading.
Liang Huang has his expertise in evaluation and passion for improving human beings’ wellbeing. The putative hierarchical & Multi-level Cognitive Framework (HMCF) in Theory of Mind developed by him and his colleagues provides new insights into understanding the communication disorders in healthy individuals or individuals with autistics or narcissism. He has built this model after years of experience in research, teaching, and administration both in hospital and education institutions. He strives for exploring the neural correlates of social mindfulness in order to improve human being’s health problem caused by the entangled interpersonal relationship in Chinese now.
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