woensdag 17 december 2014

Artikel: Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people's negative biases about others

Cell Press, 'Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people's negative biases about others', ScienceDaily (15 December 2014).

Different senses

Researchers explain how they have used the brain's ability to bring together information from different senses to make white people feel that they were inhabiting black bodies and adults feel like they had children's bodies.

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The research shows that integration of different sensory signals can allow the brain to update its model of the body and cause people to change their attitudes about others.

Oorspronkelijk

Lara Maister, Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Manos Tsakiris, 'Changing bodies changes minds: owning another body affects social cognition', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2014, DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.11.001

Kernwoorden

'In de huid kruipen van een ander', empathisch empatisch vermogen, empathie, inlevingsvermogen, inleven.

Links

Voor het artikel in ScienceDaily klik hier. Het oorspronkelijke artikel is hier te vinden.