More of myself: Manipulating interoceptive awareness by heightened attention to bodily and narrative aspects of the self

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1231-1238

  Ainley, Vivien ^a   Maister, Lara ^a   Brokfeld, Jana ^a   Farmer, Harry ^a   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodily self; Heartbeat perception; Interoception; Interoceptive awareness; Narrative self; Perceptual accuracy hypothesis; Self focus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; MALE; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

BODILY SELF; HEARTBEAT PERCEPTION; INTEROCEPTION; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; NARRATIVE SELF; PERCEPTUAL ACCURACY HYPOTHESIS; SELF-FOCUS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883722342     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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