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Self-Concept Clarity and the Bodily Self: Malleability Across Modalities
- Source :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 46:808-820
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- The self has fascinated scholars for centuries. Although theory suggests that the self-concept (cognitive self-understanding) and bodily self (pre-reflective awareness of one’s body) are related, little work has examined this notion. To this end, in Study 1, participants reported on self-concept clarity (SCC) and completed the rubber hand illusion (RHI), a paradigm in which synchronous (vs. asynchronous) stimulation between a prosthetic hand and one’s own hand leads one to “embody” the prosthetic hand. Whereas participants were equally susceptible to the RHI during synchronous stroking, low-SCC individuals were more vulnerable to the illusion during asynchronous stroking, when the effect is unwarranted. Conceptually replicating and extending this finding, in Study 2, low-SCC individuals were more susceptible to the body-swap illusion—the impression that another person’s body is one’s own. These findings suggest that a clear sense of self implies clarity and stability of both the self-concept and the bodily self.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Social Psychology
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Self-concept
Illusion
Psychology of self
050105 experimental psychology
law.invention
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Malleability
law
Surveys and Questionnaires
Body Image
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
media_common
Modalities
Self
05 social sciences
Cognition
Hand
Illusions
Self Concept
Visual Perception
CLARITY
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15527433 and 01461672
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....22115d96bd2d038afe1b8db506f5df1c