Shared reality and abstraction: The social nature of predictive models

We propose that abstraction is an interpersonal process and serves a social function. Research on shared reality shows that in communication, people raise their level of abstraction in order to create a common understanding with their communication partner, which can subsequently distort their menta...

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Autores: Rossignac-Milon, M. (Maya)|||/items/46487125-fd91-4533-a499-f61e9aa85148, Pinelli, F. (Federica)|||/items/e55e7ef7-0ce4-43ba-ad22-102c29ce8b8b, Higgins, E.T. (E. Tory)|||/items/c82cc41d-ac1d-4076-a790-de866b170284
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/118645
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/118645
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Abstraction in communication
Shared reality
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Sumario:We propose that abstraction is an interpersonal process and serves a social function. Research on shared reality shows that in communication, people raise their level of abstraction in order to create a common understanding with their communication partner, which can subsequently distort their mental representation of the object of communication. This work demonstrates that, beyond building accurate models, abstraction also functions to build socially shared models – to create a shared reality.