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University College London
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Article title
Illusory ownership of a virtual child body causes overestimation of object sizes and implicit attitude changes
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D - Journal article
Title of journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Article number
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Volume number
110
Issue number
31
First page of article
12846
ISSN of journal
0027-8424
Year of publication
2013
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Number of additional authors
2
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<20>Immersive virtual reality (IVR) can be used to give people the illusion of having a different body. Here we show for the first time the profound effects that this can have on the perception, attitudes and behaviours of people. Adults were embodied in a 4 year old child (C) or adult body shrunk to the same size (A). Subjects in C greatly overestimated object sizes, and self-attributed child-like attitudes compared to A. A control condition where body ownership was extinguished also extinguished these effects. The results are important in their implications for a new IVR path for changing the self.
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