The influence of multilingualism on perspective- taking
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2025-05-19
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Previous research has shown that there may be an effect of multilingualism on perspective taking. More specifically, multilinguals might perform better on a director task than monolinguals, a task where it is crucial to take another’s visual perspective into account. This thesis is part of a replication of a study by Fan et al. (2015). The aim of this thesis was therefore to replicate the study and build on it by adding eye-tracking as an extra measure. The data of 66 participants were analyzed for this study. The participants participated in a director task, and their looking behavior was recorded during the task. The looking behavior was recorded in two ways: by a camera recording their face, and a wearable eye-tracker. Neither the video data nor the eye-tracking data suggest that multilinguals are better than monolinguals at visual-perspective taking. Furthermore, there are some differences between the video data and eye-tracking data that will be explored. Overall, eye-tracking is a more objective measure since it does not require subjective decisions by human coders to the same extent as coding the video data does.
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