27/05/2026
Miło nam poinformować o nowej publikacji w ramach wydania specjalnego czasopisma Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation: Blame through my eyes: How first-person perspective shapes social attention and attribution in harmful interactions – a comparative eye tracking study
Adrianna Jakubowska, Raphaëlle Fortin, Makar Varenyk, Li Ting Lin, Anna Zajenkowska
Anna Zajenkowska jest aktywną członkinią European Society for the Study of Personality w sekcji Section for the Study of Interpersonal Functioning and Social Cognition in PD. W ramach sekcji powstała idea stworzenia wydania specjalnego dotyczącego zaburzeń osobowości oraz budowania relacji interpersonalnych.
Nasza praca jest kontynuacją badań (Zajenkowska, A. M., Bodecka, M., Duda, E., & Lawrence, C. (2022). Reduced attention toward faces, intentionality and blame ascription in violent offenders and community‐based adults: Evidence from an eye‐tracking study. Aggressive Behavior, 48(2), 264–274) nad konstruktem izomorfizmu obwiniania i przypisywania negatywnych intencji. Dla niektórych osób i w pewnych okolicznościach te konstrukty stają się tożsame. To, że coś wydaje się nam intencjonalne, niekoniecznie oznacza wrogość i nie musi prowadzić do przypisania winy.
Abstrakt:
Background: Rigid attributional patterns are a key component of social cognitive deficits linked to aggression. Prior eye-tracking research using a third-person perspective revealed that, compared to community adults, incarcerated violent offenders oriented less to faces and showed a stronger correlation between perceived intentionality and assigned blame (Intentionality/Blame isomorphism), a metric of attributional inflexibility. The present study investigated how adopting an immersive first-person victim perspective affects both I/B isomorphism and facial attention.
Methods: A total of 184 adults participated in our study, including 119 community members (60 female, 59 male) and 65 incarcerated violent offenders (32 female, 33 male). During the eye-tracking task, participants viewed 27 static visual scenes depicting ambiguous interpersonal harm between two actors – a harm doer and a victim – and were instructed to imagine themselves as the victim in each scenario. The scenes included both hostile (e.g., a harmful act) and non-hostile (e.g., mitigating expressions or gestures) cues. Independent samples t-tests were used to compare group differences in I/B isomorphism and face dwell time, and Pearson's correlations were used to examine the relationships between variables.
Results: Consistent with our hypothesis and contrary to findings from third-person studies, incarcerated violent offenders exhibited significantly lower I/B isomorphism than community adults under a first-person perspective. Furthermore, no significant differences in face dwell time were observed between these two groups.
Conclusions: These results suggest that, among incarcerated violent offenders, adopting a victim's perspective may disrupt rigid attributional patterns and normalize attention to social cues. These findings suggest that perspective-taking interventions could support improvements in empathy, cognitive flexibility, and overall interpersonal functioning.
Background Rigid attributional patterns are a key component of social cognitive deficits linked to aggression. Prior eye-tracking research using a third-person perspective revealed that, compared to community adults, incarcerated violent offenders oriented less to faces and showed a stronger correla...