ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
Change my body, change my mind: the effects of illusory ownership of an outgroup hand on implicit attitudes toward that outgroup.
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- Embodiment in Virtual Reality Intensifies Emotional Responses to Virtual Stimuli.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Development of a Flexible Bodily Representation: Behavioral Outcomes and Brain Oscillatory Activity During the Rubber Hand Illusion in Preterm and Full-Term School-Age Children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Interpersonal Affective Touch in a Virtual World: Feeling the Social Presence of Others to Overcome Loneliness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Having a live huntsman spider on a rubber hand does not modulate the rubber-hand illusion in a top-down manner.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others' pain.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Exploring the Effect of Cooperation in Reducing Implicit Racial Bias and Its Relationship With Dispositional Empathy and Political Attitudes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Into Your (S)Kin: Toward a Comprehensive Conception of Empathy.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A meta-analysis of procedures to change implicit measures.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2019Article
- Personality assimilation across species: enfacing an ape reduces own intelligence and increases emotion attribution to apes.Psychological research · 2019Article
- Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- The influence of skin colour on the experience of ownership in the rubber hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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The effect of multisensory-induced changes on body-ownership and self-awareness using bodily illusions has been well established. More recently, experimental manipulation of bodily illusions have been combined with social cognition tasks to investigate whether changes in body-ownership can in turn change the way we perceive others. For example, experiencing ownership over a dark-skin rubber hand reduces implicit bias against dark-skin groups. Several studies have also shown that processing of skin color and facial features play an important role in judgements of racial typicality and racial categorization independently and in an additive manner. The present study aimed at examining whether using multisensory stimulation to induce feelings of body-ownership over a dark-skin rubber hand would lead to an increase in positive attitudes toward black faces. We here show, that the induced ownership of a body-part of a different skin color affected the participants' implicit attitudes when processing facial features, in addition to the processing of skin color shown previously. Furthermore, when the levels of pre-existing attitudes toward black people were taken into account, the effect of the rubber hand illusion on the post-stimulation implicit attitudes was only significant for those participants who had a negative initial attitude toward black people, with no significant effects found for those who had positive initial attitudes toward black people. Taken together, our findings corroborate the hypothesis that the representation of the self and its relation to others, as given to us by body-related multisensory processing, is critical in maintaining but also in changing social attitudes.
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