TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals
T2 - A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural)
AU - Prein, Julia Christin
AU - Bednarski, Florian M.
AU - Dzabatou, Ardain
AU - Frank, Michael C.
AU - Henderson, Annette M.E.
AU - Kalbitz, Josefine
AU - Kanngiesser, Patricia
AU - Keşşafoğlu, Dilara
AU - Köymen, Bahar
AU - Manrique-Hernandez, Maira V.
AU - Magazi, Shirley
AU - Mújica-Manrique, Lizbeth
AU - Ohlendorf, Julia
AU - Olaoba, Damilola
AU - Pieters, Wesley R.
AU - Pope-Caldwell, Sarah
AU - Sen, Umay
AU - Slocombe, Katie
AU - Sparks, Robert Z.
AU - Stengelin, Roman
AU - Sunderarajan, Jahnavi
AU - Sutherland, Kirsten
AU - Tusiime, Florence
AU - Vieira, Wilson
AU - Zhang, Zhen
AU - Zong, Yufei
AU - Haun, Daniel B.M.
AU - Bohn, Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2025.
PY - 2025/1/1
Y1 - 2025/1/1
N2 - Cross-cultural studies are crucial for investigating the cultural variability and universality of cognitive developmental processes. However, cross-cultural assessment tools in cognition across languages and communities are limited. In this article, we describe a gaze-following task designed to measure basic social cognition across individuals, ages, and communities (the Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural; TANGO-CC). The task was developed and psychometrically assessed in one cultural setting and, with input of local collaborators, adapted for cross-cultural data collection. Minimal language demands and the web-app implementation allow fast and easy contextual adaptations to each community. TANGO-CC captures individual- and community-level variation and shows good internal consistency in a data set of 2.5- to 11-year-old children from 17 diverse communities. Within-communities variation outweighed between-communities variation. We provide an open-source website for researchers to customize and use the task (https://ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/tango-cc). TANGO-CC can be used to assess basic social cognition in diverse communities and provides a roadmap for researching community-level and individual-level differences across cultures.
AB - Cross-cultural studies are crucial for investigating the cultural variability and universality of cognitive developmental processes. However, cross-cultural assessment tools in cognition across languages and communities are limited. In this article, we describe a gaze-following task designed to measure basic social cognition across individuals, ages, and communities (the Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural; TANGO-CC). The task was developed and psychometrically assessed in one cultural setting and, with input of local collaborators, adapted for cross-cultural data collection. Minimal language demands and the web-app implementation allow fast and easy contextual adaptations to each community. TANGO-CC captures individual- and community-level variation and shows good internal consistency in a data set of 2.5- to 11-year-old children from 17 diverse communities. Within-communities variation outweighed between-communities variation. We provide an open-source website for researchers to customize and use the task (https://ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/tango-cc). TANGO-CC can be used to assess basic social cognition in diverse communities and provides a roadmap for researching community-level and individual-level differences across cultures.
KW - cross-cultural psychology
KW - gaze following
KW - individual differences
KW - open data
KW - open materials
KW - reliability
KW - social cognition
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85217872628
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/psy-research/1135/
U2 - 10.1177/25152459241308170
DO - 10.1177/25152459241308170
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85217872628
SN - 2515-2459
VL - 8
JO - Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
JF - Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
IS - 1
ER -