Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self-other distinction.

ABSTRACT: People tend to evaluate their own traits and abilities favourably and such favourable self-perceptions extend to attractiveness. However, the exact mechanism underlying this self-enhancement bias remains unclear. One possibility could be the identification with attractive others through blurring of self-other boundaries. Across two experiments, we used the enfacement illusion to investigate the effect of others' attractiveness in the multisensory perception of the self. In Experiment 1 (N = 35), participants received synchronous or asynchronous interpersonal visuo-tactile stimulation with an attractive and non-attractive face. In Experiment 2 (N = 35), two new faces were used and spatial incongruency was introduced as a control condition. The results showed that increased rat

SUBMITTER: Panagiotopoulou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9131399 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature