Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural)

Julia Christin Prein; Florian M. Bednarski; Ardain Dzabatou; Michael C. Frank; Annette M.E. Henderson; Josefine Kalbitz; Patricia Kanngiesser; Dilara Keşşafoğlu; Bahar Köymen; Maira V. Manrique-Hernandez; Shirley Magazi; Lizbeth Mújica-Manrique; Julia Ohlendorf; Damilola Olaoba; Wesley R. Pieters; Sarah Pope-Caldwell; Umay Sen; Katie Slocombe; Robert Z. Sparks; Roman Stengelin; Jahnavi Sunderarajan; Kirsten Sutherland; Florence Tusiime; Wilson Vieira; Zhen Zhang; Yufei Zong; Daniel B.M. Haun; Manuel Bohn

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Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural)

Julia Christin Prein^*, Florian M. Bednarski, Ardain Dzabatou, Michael C. Frank, Annette M.E. Henderson, Josefine Kalbitz, Patricia Kanngiesser, Dilara Keşşafoğlu, Bahar Köymen, Maira V. Manrique-Hernandez, Shirley Magazi, Lizbeth Mújica-Manrique, Julia Ohlendorf, Damilola Olaoba, Wesley R. Pieters, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Umay Sen, Katie Slocombe, Robert Z. Sparks, Roman StengelinJahnavi Sunderarajan, Kirsten Sutherland, Florence Tusiime, Wilson Vieira, Zhen Zhang, Yufei Zong, Daniel B.M. Haun, Manuel Bohn

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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.

Original language	English
Number of pages	16
Journal	Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Early online date	10 Feb 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241308170
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2025

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cross-cultural psychology
gaze following
individual differences
open data
open materials
reliability
social cognition

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Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Keşşafoğlu, D., Köymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M. V., Magazi, S., Mújica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W. R., Pope-Caldwell, S., Sen, U., Slocombe, K., Sparks, R. Z., ... Bohn, M. (2025). Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241308170

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Prein JC, Bednarski FM, Dzabatou A, Frank MC, Henderson AME, Kalbitz J et al. Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2025 Feb 28;8(1). Epub 2025 Feb 10. doi: 10.1177/25152459241308170

Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural)

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