Fluid face but not gender: Enfacement illusion through digital face filters does not affect gender identity.

ABSTRACT: It has been shown that observing a face being touched or moving in synchrony with our own face increases self-identification with the former which might alter both cognitive and affective processes. The induction of this phenomenon, termed enfacement illusion, has often relied on laboratory tools that are unavailable to a large audience. However, digital face filters applications are nowadays regularly used and might provide an interesting tool to study similar mechanisms in a wider population. Digital filters are able to render our faces in real time while changing important facial features, for example, rendering them more masculine or feminine according to normative standards. Recent literature using full-body illusions has shown that participants' own gender identity shifts when embody

SUBMITTER: Provenzano L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990241 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature