Experiencing ownership over a dark-skinned body reduces implicit racial bias

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-178

  Maister, Lara ^a   Sebanz, Natalie ^b,c   Knoblich, Günther ^b   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body ownership; Body representation; Implicit racial attitudes; Multisensory; Rubber hand illusion; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SKIN COLOR; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; STIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; RACISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877811144     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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