title: Social task switching: On the automatic social engagement of executive functions.
abstract: Humans are quintessentially social, yet much of cognitive psychology has focused on the individual, in individual settings. The literature on joint action is one of the most prominent exceptions. Joint-action research studies the sociality of our mental representations by examining how the tasks of other people around us affect our own task performance. In this paper we go beyond examining whether we represent others and their tasks, by asking whether we also automatically do their tasks with them, even if they require effortful executive functions. To this end we examine one of the core executive functions, shifting, in a new paradigm that allows us to investigate task-switching in a joint-action setup.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: veronica.dudarev@mail.huji.ac.il.
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dudarev
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Department of Psychology and The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: ran.hassin@huji.ac.il.
authors.forename: Ran R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Hassin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Automatic executive functions; Joint action; Shifting; Social cognition; Task-switching