Abstract: When we see new people we rapidly form first impressions Whereas past research has focused on the role of morphological or emotional cues we asked whether transient visceral states bias the impressions we form Across three studies N = 94 university students we investigated how fluctuations of bodily states driven

Abstract: During political campaigns candidates use rhetoric to advance competing visions and assessments of their country Research reveals that the moral language used in this rhetoric can significantly influence citizens political attitudes and behaviors however the moral language actually used in the rhetoric of elites during political campaigns remains understudied Using

Abstract: The face is a defining feature of our individuality crucial for our social interactions But what happens when the face connected to the self is radically altered or replaced We address the plasticity of self face recognition in the context of facial transplantation While the acquisition of a new face

Abstract: Updating one s beliefs about the causes and effects of climate change is crucial for altering attitudes and behaviours Importantly metacognitive abilities insight into the in correctness of one s beliefs play a key role in the formation of polarised beliefs We here aimed at investigated the role of metacognition

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Today more than ever we are asked to evaluate the realness truthfulness and trustworthiness of our social world Here we focus on how people evaluate realistic looking faces of non existing people hellip

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Is there a way to visually depict the image people see of themselves in their minds eyes And if so what can these mental images tell us about ourselves We hellip

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Changing collective behaviour and supporting non pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic In a large international collaboration Study 1 N = 49 968 across 67 hellip

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The sensation of internal bodily signals such as when your stomach is contracting or your heart is beating plays a critical role in broad biological and psychological functions ranging from hellip

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Objective People are highly attuned to fairness with people willingly suffering personal costs to prevent others benefitting from unfair acts Are fairness judgments influenced by group alignments A new theory hellip

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Photojournalistic images shape our understanding of sociopolitical events How humans are depicted in images may have far reaching consequences for our attitudes towards them Social psychology has shown how the visualization hellip

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At the heart of social cognition is our ability to distinguish between self and other and correctly attribute mental and affective states to their origin Emotional egocentricity bias EEB reflects hellip

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Standard measures of interoception are typically limited to the conscious perception of heartbeats However the fundamental purpose of interoceptive signaling is to regulate the body We present a novel biofeedback hellip

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Influential theories posit that bodily responses are important for decision making under uncertainty However the evidence of the role of our ability to perceive subtle bodily changes interoception in decision making under hellip

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Although the study of political behaviour has been traditionally restricted to the social sciences new advances in political neuroscience and computational cognitive science highlight that the biological sciences can offer hellip

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A growing body of research suggests that perception and cognition are affected by fluctuating bodily states For example the rate of information sampling is coupled with cardiac phases However the hellip

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Body awareness is constructed by signals originating from within and outside the body How do these apparently divergent signals converge We developed a signal detection task to study the neural hellip

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We explore dance video clip stimuli as a means to test human observers 8217 accuracy in detecting genuine emotional expressivity in full body movements Stimuli of every day type full body expressions of emotions usually hellip

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The perception of being located within one s body i e bodily self location is an essential feature of everyday self experience However by manipulating exteroceptive input healthy participants can easily be induced to hellip

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Erogenous zones of the body are sexually arousing when touched Previous investigations of erogenous zones were restricted to the effects of touch on one s own body However sexual interactions do hellip

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The ability to experience others 8217 emotional states is a key component in social interactions Uniquely among sensorimotor regions the somatosensory cortex SCx plays an especially important role in human emotion hellip

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We often use our own emotions to understand other people s emotions However emotional egocentric biases EEB namely the tendency to use one s own emotional state when relating to others emotions hellip

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The experience of one 8217 s embodied sense of self is dependent on the integration of signals originating both from within and outwith one 8217 s body During the processing and integration of these hellip

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Recent research has highlighted the contribution of interoceptive signals to different aspects of bodily self consciousness BSC by means of the cardio visual stimulation 8211 i e perceiving a pulsing stimulus in synchrony hellip

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The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception hellip

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Interoception describes the processing and awareness of bodily signals arising from visceral organs essential for the organism 8217 s homeostatic needs Beyond homeostasis the integration of exteroceptive and interoceptive signals is required hellip

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Modern psychology has long focused on the body as the basis of the self Recently predictive processing accounts of interoception perception of the body from within have become influential in hellip

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Past research has shown that anger is associated with support for confrontational and punitive responses during crises and notably with the endorsement of authoritarian ideologies One important question is whether hellip

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Despite the growing consensus that the continuous dynamic cortical representations of internal bodily states shape the subjective experience of emotions physiological arousal is typically considered only a consequence and rarely hellip

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The sense of body ownership relies on the representation of both interoceptive and exteroceptive signals coming from one 8217 s body However it remains unknown how the integration of bodily signals coming from hellip

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Interoception the sense of the physiological condition of the body originating from within its internal organs and body image namely the perception feelings and attitudes one has about one 8217 s body hellip

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Negative racial stereotypes tend to associate Black people with threat This often leads to the misidentification of harmless objects as weapons held by a Black individual Yet little is known hellip

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Is the self already relational in its very bodily foundations The question of whether our mental life is initially and primarily shaped by embodied dimensions of the individual or by hellip