Self-other distinction modulates the social softness illusion.

Autor: Pyasik M; SAMBA (SpAtial, Motor and Bodily Awareness) Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.; NPSY-Lab.VR, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy., Fortunato E; SAMBA (SpAtial, Motor and Bodily Awareness) Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy., Dal Monte O; Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. olga.dalmonte@unito.it.; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. olga.dalmonte@unito.it., Schintu S; Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA., Garbarini F; MANIBUS - Movement ANd Body In Behavioral and Physiological neUroScience Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.; NIT (Neuroscience Institute of Turin), Turin, Italy., Ciorli T; SAMBA (SpAtial, Motor and Bodily Awareness) Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy., Pia L; SAMBA (SpAtial, Motor and Bodily Awareness) Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.; NIT (Neuroscience Institute of Turin), Turin, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychological research [Psychol Res] 2022 Jun; Vol. 86 (4), pp. 1165-1173. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 25.
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01549-8
Abstrakt: The social softness illusion (i.e., the tendency to perceive another person's skin as softer than our own) is thought to promote the sharing of social-emotional experiences because of the rewarding properties of receiving and giving social affective touch. Here we investigated whether the ability to distinguish someone else's body from our own modulates the social softness illusion. In particular, we tested whether the spatial perspective taken by the participants and seeing or not the touched arms could alter this illusion. Pairs of female participants were assigned the roles of either the giver (i.e., delivering the touches) or the receiver (i.e., being touched). We manipulated the location of the touch (palm or forearm), the spatial perspective of the receiver's body with respect to the giver's body (egocentric or allocentric perspective), and the vision of the touched body part (the giver could either see both her own and the receiver's body part, or she was blindfolded). Consistently with previous findings, the skin of another person was perceived as softer than the own one. Additionally, the illusion was present for both the forearm and the palm, and it was stronger in allocentric compared to the egocentric perspective (i.e., when the self-other distinction was clearer). These findings show that the mechanisms underpinning the ability to represent another person's body as distinct from our own modulates the social softness illusion, and thus support the role of the social softness illusion in fostering social relationships.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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