Psychology Seminar - Voluntary action in social contexts: mentalizing, outcome monitoring and sense of agency

The presence of other people can have important effects on individual behaviour, inducing bystander effects, increasing risk taking, or facilitating aggression. Little is known about the underlying cognitive processes, by which the presence of others affects indicidual actions. 

In this talk, SBCS Lecturer in Psychology will present a series of studies which show that social action contexts can reduce particpants' sense of control over the outcomes of their own actions, as well as reduce their monitoring of those outcomes at the neural level. The research proposes and tests the theory, that the effects of social contexts on individual behaviour are not solely driven by self-serving biases or displacement of responsibility, but by a direct influence of mentalizing processes on action planning.

This seminar is open to all, no registration necessary.