I feel what you feel if you are similar to me
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Social interactions are influenced by the perception of others as similar or dissimilar to the self. Such judgements could depend on physical and semantic characteristics, such as membership in an ethnic or political group. In the present study we tested whether social representations of the self and of others could affect the perception of touch. To this aim, we assessed tactile perception on the face when subjects observed a face being touched by fingers. In different conditions we manipulated the identity of the shown face. In a first experiment, Caucasian and Maghrebian participants viewed a face belonging either to their own or to a different ethnic group; in a second experiment, Liberal and Conservative politically active participants viewed faces of politicians belonging to their own or to the opposite political party. The results showed that viewing a touched face most strongly enhanced the perception of touch on the observer's face when the observed face belonged to his/her own ethnic or political group.
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Viewing a face being touched enhances the perception of touch on one's own face, but this Visual Remapping of Touch effect is not present when the observed face belongs to a racial outgroup member.
“For example, viewing a face being touched enhances the perception of touch on one's own face, but this effect, known as the Visual Remapping of Touch, is not present when the observed face belongs to a racial outgroup member [5].”
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“For instance, enhancement of touch perception in a participant, induced by the observation of a photograph depicting another person being touched in the same location, depended on the degree of familiarity or social proximity between the observer and the observe (Serino et al., 2009).”
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- Authors
- Serino, A., Giovagnoli, G., & Làdavas, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Serino, Andrea
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2009-03-18
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- e4930
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2654168
- OpenAlex
- W1986459945
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 2.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- tactile perception, social representations, self-other similarity, ethnic identity, political identity, face perception, observer effect, intergroup perception
- MeSH terms
- Face, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Kinesics
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