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How does the presence of others influence control inhibition? Contradictory evidence using an antisaccade and stop signal task
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Inhibitory control (IC) is defined as the (in)ability to change, suppress, or delay a
response that is no longer required under the current circumstances. This ability was
previously argued to increase in social contexts, based on Stroop’s performance,
showing that participants performed the Stroop task better in others’ presence than
alone. In this paper, we extend the testing of this same hypothesis to the use of two
other tasks that Mitake et al. (2000) show to grasp the same IC ability; the Antisaccade
and Stop signal tasks. If Stroop’s performance was capturing the impact of the presence
of others on CI abilities, the effect would generalize to performance on these tasks.
This hypothesis was only generally supported by stop signal task performance; those in
the presence condition were significantly more efficient than those in the alone
conditions. For the Antisaccade tasks, evidence shows that higher levels of interference
occurs in the presence of others condition for participants’ fastest responses We
discuss how this evidence contributes to the literature suggesting that the two tasks
may index different constructs.
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Executive control Inhibition Presence of others
Citation
Garcia-Marques, T., & Fernandes, A. (2023). How does the presence of others influence control inhibition? Contradictory evidence using an antisaccade and stop signal task. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941231153328
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SAGE Publications Inc.