Relationships Between Personality Features and the Rubber Hand Illusion: An Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT: The rubber hand illusion paradigm allows investigating human body ownership by inducing an illusion of owning a life-sized fake hand. Despite the wide consensus on the fact that integration of multisensory signals is the main interpretative framework of the rubber hand illusion, increasing amount of data show that additional factors might contribute to the emergence of the illusion and, in turn, explain the strong inter-individual differences of the illusory patterns. Here, we explored whether and how personality features contribute to the emergence of the illusion by administering to healthy participants the rubber hand illusion paradigm along with two well-known personality tests, i.e., the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and the Rorschach test. Results showed that two Rorschach d

SUBMITTER: Burin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6914866 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature