“Embodying an outgroup: the role of racial bias and the effect of multisensory processing in somatosensory remapping”
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We come to understand other people's physical and mental states by re-mapping their bodily states onto our sensorimotor system. This process, also called somatosensory resonance, is an essential ability for social cognition and is stronger when observing ingroup than outgroup members. Here we investigated, first, whether implicit racial bias constrains somatosensory resonance, and second, whether increasing the ingroup/outgroup perceived physical similarity results in an increase in the somatosensory resonance for outgroup members. We used the Visual Remapping of Touch effect as an index of individuals' ability in resonating with the others, and the Implicit Association Test to measure racial bias. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to detect near-threshold tactile stimuli delivered to their own face while viewing either an ingroup or an outgroup face receiving a similar stimulation. Our results showed that individuals' tactile accuracy when viewing an outgroup face being touched was negatively correlated to their implicit racial bias. In Experiment 2, participants received the interpersonal multisensory stimulation (IMS) while observing an outgroup member. IMS has been found to increase the perceived physical similarity between the observer's and the observed body. We tested whether such increase in ingroup/outgroup perceived physical similarity increased the remapping ability for outgroup members. We found that after sharing IMS experience with an outgroup member, tactile accuracy when viewing touch on outgroup faces increased. Interestingly, participants with stronger implicit bias against the outgroup showed larger positive change in the remapping. We conclude that shared multisensory experiences might represent one key way to improve our ability to resonate with others by overcoming the boundaries between ingroup and outgroup categories.
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The experience of body ownership over the outgroup member's face increased the Visual Remapping of Touch effect up to the level normally associated with a same-race individual.
“Results showed that the experience of body ownership over the outgroup member's face had increased the Visual Remapping of Touch effect up to the level normally associated with a same-race individual.”
From Changing bodies changes minds: Owning another body affects social cognition (2015) · cites this paper as [14]
Changes in body ownership to incorporate an outgroup body increase bodily resonance with that outgroup.
“Importantly, such changes in body ownership to incorporate an outgroup body also increase 'bodily resonance' with that outgroup.”
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Changes in the perceived similarity between self and others, caused by shared multisensory experiences, might bridge the gap between the basic, perceptual representation of bodies and the complex social mechanisms underlying much of our everyday social interaction.
“Taken together, these findings suggest that changes in the perceived similarity between self and others, caused by shared multisensory experiences, might 'bridge the gap' between the basic, perceptual representation of bodies, and the complex social mechanisms underlying much of our everyday social interaction.”
From Changing bodies changes minds: Owning another body affects social cognition (2015) · cites this paper as [14]
Initial behavioural evidence has suggested that induced changes in body ownership can increase somatosensory resonance when observing a different-race individual being touched.
“Initial behavioural evidence has suggested that induced changes in body ownership can increase somatosensory resonance when observing a different-race individual being touched [14].”
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- Authors
- Fini, C., Cardini, F., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Serino, A., & Tsakiris, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Chieti-Pescara (IT)
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Cardini, Flavia
- Venue
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2013
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 165-165
- ISSN
- 1662-5153 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3831089
- OpenAlex
- W2162571193
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 7.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
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- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Volkswagen Foundation
- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (262853)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- racial bias, outgroup perception, in-group favoritism, multisensory processing, social cognition
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