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Title: | A mechanistic account of bodily resonance and implicit bias |
Author: | Bedder, Rachel L. Bush, Daniel Banakou, Domna Peck, Tabitha C. Slater, Mel Burgess, Neil |
Keywords: | Realitat virtual Encarnació Associacionisme Virtual reality Incarnation Associationism |
Issue Date: | 1-Mar-2019 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | Implicit social biases play a critical role in shaping our attitudes towards other people. Such biases are thought to arise, in part, from a comparison between features of one's own self-image and those of another agent, a process known as 'bodily resonance'. Recent data have demonstrated that implicit bias can be remarkably plastic, being modulated by brief immersive virtual reality experiences that place participants in a virtual body with features of an out-group member. Here, we provide a mechanistic account of bodily resonance and implicit bias in terms of a putative self-image network that encodes associations between different features of an agent. When subsequently perceiving another agent, the output of this self-image network is proportional to the overlap between their respective features, providing an index of bodily resonance. By combining the self-image network with a drift diffusion model of decision making, we simulate performance on the implicit association test (IAT) and show that the model captures the ubiquitous implicit bias towards in-group members. We subsequently demonstrate that this implicit bias can be modulated by a simulated illusory body ownership experience, consistent with empirical data; and that the magnitude and plasticity of implicit bias correlates with self-esteem. Hence, we provide a simple mechanistic account of bodily resonance and implicit bias which could contribute to the development of interventions for reducing the negative evaluation of social out-groups. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.11.010 |
It is part of: | Cognition, 2019, vol. 184, p. 1-10 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/171887 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.11.010 |
ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia) |
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