Illusory ownership of a virtual child body causes overestimation of object sizes and implicit attitude changes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12846-12851

  Banakou, Domna ^a,b   Groten, Raphaela ^a,c   Slater, Mel ^a,b,d,e  

^a Department of Personality Evaluation and Psychological Treatment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body awareness; Perceptual illusion; Self consciousness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881117989     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306779110     Document Type: Article

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