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Can the curse of knowing be lifted? The influence of explicit perspective-focus instructions on readers’ perspective-taking

peer-reviewed experimental study with replication of earlier egocentrism findings Damen, van der Wijst, van Amelsvoort, & Krahmer (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(8), 1407-1423.

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“Across two experiments, directing readers' attention to another person's perspective did not diminish egocentric projection; the study also replicated earlier illusory transparency of intention and egocentric anchoring-and-adjustment findings.”

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