Scientists “swap bodies” of friends and discover they swap personalities, too – Boing Boing

Scientists at the Brain, Body, and Self Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden outfitted pairs of friends with video goggles so they saw things from each other’s point of view. “To further the illusion,” reports Science Daily, “they applied simultaneous touches to both participants on corresponding body parts so they could also feel what they saw in the goggles.” They discovered that the participants in the study “tended to rate themselves as more similar to the friend whose body they wer…

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