TITLE:
Social Inhibition of Vection
AUTHORS:
Takeharu Seno
KEYWORDS:
Vection; Social Inhibition; Audience
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.8,
July
24,
2013
ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the
social interaction can affect vection strength. We compared the strength of
self-motion perception (vection) with and without an audience (two people in
addition to the participant) present during stimulus presentation. We presented
the optical flow (dots’ expansion) for 40 seconds and obtained vection duration
and latency and we also obtained the subjective strength of vection via
magnitude estimation. We found that vection was inhibited by the presence of an
audience. We speculate that audience presence might distract the attention of
participants from the vection, depriving them of the attentional resources inhibited
vection.