This study explored the modulatory role of independent/interdependent self-construal on ensemble perception. Two experiments were conducted to study the effect of self-construal on ensemble coding of multiple-face identities (Experiment 1) and dot size (Experiment 2) separately. Before the implicit ensemble perception task, participants in both experiments were either primed with independent or interdependent self-construal via a well-validated pronoun circle task, in which they were exposed to either singular (“I,” “me,” and “my”) or plural (“We,” “us,” and “our”) pronouns in essays. The results showed that interdependent self-construal (vs. independent self-construal) featured as global processing and emphasizing interconnectedness with others enhanced the ensemble coding of high-level features (e.g., identity in Experiment 1) but not of low-level features (e.g., size in Experiment 2). To the best of our knowledge, this study was the first to investigate the role of self-construal on ensemble representations. In sum, the results of the current study supported the domain-specific mechanism of ensemble perception on one hand, and extended the effect of self-construal on single face recognition to multiple face recognition on the other hand.
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机译：这项研究探讨了独立/相互依赖的自我建构对整体感知的调节作用。进行了两个实验，分别研究了自我构造对多面身份（实验1）和点大小（实验2）的集成编码的影响。在隐式整体感知任务之前，两个实验的参与者都通过一个经过充分验证的代词圈任务对独立或相互依赖的自我建构进行了灌注，其中他们暴露于单数形式（“ I”，“ me”和“ my ”或复数形式（“我们”，“我们”和“我们的”）代词。结果表明，相互依赖的自我构造（相对于独立的自我构造）具有全局处理功能，并强调与他人的互连性增强了高级特征（例如实验1中的身份）的整体编码，但没有增强低级特征（例如实验2中的尺寸）。据我们所知，这项研究是第一个研究自我建构在整体表征中的作用的研究。总而言之，当前研究的结果一方面支持整体感知的领域特定机制，另一方面将自我构造对单人脸识别的影响扩展到多人脸识别。
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