ReviewPsychological research2021
Embodied self-other overlap in romantic love: a review and integrative perspective.
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- Love as a Commitment Device : Evidence from a Cross-Cultural Study across 90 Countries.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Embodiment in the enfacement illusion is mediated by self-other overlap.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Emophilia: psychometric properties of the emotional promiscuity scale and its association with personality traits, unfaithfulness, and romantic relationships in a Scandinavian sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- The role of prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction in interpersonal comfort and emotional approach.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Perspective Taking and Avatar-Self Merging.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Happiness connects: The impact of mood on self-other integration.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Metacontrol and joint action: how shared goals transfer from one task to another?Psychological research · 2021Article
- Self-partner inclusion predicts performance of romantically involved individuals in a body-scaled action-anticipation task.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Romantic love has long intrigued scientists in various disciplines. Social-cognitive research has provided ample evidence for overlapping mental representations of self and romantic partner. This overlap between self and romantic partner would contribute to the experience of love and has been found to be a predictor of relationship quality. Self-partner overlap has been mainly documented at the level of conceptual or narrative self, with studies showing confusion between one's own and partner's identity aspects, perspectives, and outcomes. But the self is not restricted to abstract, conceptual representations but also involves body-related representations, which, research has revealed, are linked to social-cognitive processes. In this article, we review the emerging evidence that romantic love involves not only a blurring of conceptual selves but also a reduction of the distinction between self and romantic partner at a bodily level. We discuss the potential function(s) of self-other overlap in romantic relationship at the level of body-related representations and consider possible mechanisms. We conclude with possible future directions to further investigate how romantic love engages embodied self-other representations involved in social interactions.
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