Authors

• Hietanen, Jonne (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Syrjämäki, Aleksi (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Hietanen, Jari (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Keywords

cognitive processes, cognitive psychology, psychological research, psychology, social cognition

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between self-referential thinking and cone of gaze (the range of gaze directions that are perceived as self-directed). The data were collected in a psychology experiment. The dataset combines the data from participants who participated in the original experiment in 2021 and participants who participated in the replication of the experiment in 2022.

The data include the participants' responses to three tasks during the experiment. In the first task, the participants were asked to write at least five sentences on each of three questions, either about themselves or about other people, depending on the participant group that they belonged to. In the second task, the participants were asked to judge whether the avatar faces presented on the computer screen looked directly at them or not. In the third task, the participants had to complete 20 sentences with the most appropriate personal pronoun. Between each task, the participants answered an attention check trial which included one question. In the original experiment, the participants completed all three tasks and in the second replication experiment the participants only completed the first and third tasks.

Background variables included the participant's gender, age, years of full-time education, and information about the computer used to complete the experiment.