Change my body, change my mind: The effects of illusory ownership of an outgroup hand on implicit attitudes toward that outgroup

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Farmer, Harry ^a,b   Maister, Lara ^a   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implicit association test; Multisensory processing; Prejudice; Rubber hand illusion; Skin color; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893596140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01016     Document Type: Article

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