@article{PfisterObhiRiegeretal.2014,
  author    = {Pfister, Roland and Obhi, Sukhvinder S. and Rieger, Martina and Wenke, Dorit},
  title     = {Action and perception in social contexts: intentional binding for social action effects},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnhum.2014.00667},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112828},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The subjective experience of controlling events in the environment alters the perception of these events. For instance, the interval between one's own actions and their consequences is subjectively compressed—a phenomenon known as intentional binding. In two experiments, we studied intentional binding in a social setting in which actions of one agent prompted a second agent to perform another action. Participants worked in pairs and were assigned to a "leader" and a "follower" role, respectively. The leader's key presses triggered (after a variable interval) a tone and this tone served as go signal for the follower to perform a keypress as well. Leaders and followers estimated the interval between the leader's keypress and the following tone, or the interval between the tone and the follower's keypress. The leader showed reliable intentional binding for both intervals relative to the follower's estimates. These results indicate that human agents experience a pre-reflective sense of agency for genuinely social consequences of their actions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NeszmelyiWellerKundeetal.2022,
  author    = {Neszm{\´e}lyi, Bence and Weller, Lisa and Kunde, Wilfried and Pfister, Roland},
  title     = {Social action effects: representing predicted partner responses in social interactions},
  series = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  issn      = {1662-5161},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnhum.2022.837495},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-276609},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {The sociomotor framework outlines a possible role of social action effects on human action control, suggesting that anticipated partner reactions are a major cue to represent, select, and initiate own body movements. Here, we review studies that elucidate the actual content of social action representations and that explore factors that can distinguish action control processes involving social and inanimate action effects. Specifically, we address two hypotheses on how the social context can influence effect-based action control: first, by providing unique social features such as body-related, anatomical codes, and second, by orienting attention towards any relevant feature dimensions of the action effects. The reviewed empirical work presents a surprisingly mixed picture: while there is indirect evidence for both accounts, previous studies that directly addressed the anatomical account showed no signs of the involvement of genuinely social features in sociomotor action control. Furthermore, several studies show evidence against the differentiation of social and non-social action effect processing, portraying sociomotor action representations as remarkably non-social. A focus on enhancing the social experience in future studies should, therefore, complement the current database to establish whether such settings give rise to the hypothesized influence of social context.},
  language  = {en}
}