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Body-Swapping Experiment Shows How “Swapping Bodies” With a Friend Changes Our Sense of Self – SciTechDaily

Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say, our bodies. A study appearing today (August 26, 2020) in the journal iScience shows that, when pairs of frien…

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This image shows a graphic of the body-swapping experiment setup. Credit: Mattias Karlen
Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say, our bodies. A study appearing today (August 26, 2020) in the journal iScience shows that, when pairs of friends swapped bodies in a perceptual illusion, their beliefs about their own personalities became more similar to their beliefs about their friends’ perso…

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