Being Moved by the Self and Others: Influence of Empathy on Self-Motion Perception [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: The observation of conspecifics influences our bodily perceptions and actions: Contagious yawning, contagious itching, or empathy for pain, are all examples of mechanisms based on resonance between our own body and others.
Avenanti, Alessio +3 more
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Self-focused but lacking self-knowledge: The relation between boredom and self-perception
, 2023 Existing research suggests that people prone to boredom may have high self-directed attention (i.e., the tendency to focus on one’s inner experiences) but low self-knowledge (i.e., the tendency to possess knowledge of one’s inner experiences), which are ...
John D. Eastwood (4846432) +2 more
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Differentiating the effects of negative state on optimism and the implicit perception of everyday injury risk [PDF]
, 2012 To date no research has examined the effects of negative state on the perception of everyday injury risk. Instead, studies have focussed more broadly on the relationship between mood and self- reported optimism. The present study had two aims.
Morgan, J, Garthwaite, J
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Effects of Self-Esteem on Self-Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 While some people enjoy looking at their faces in the mirror, others experience emotional distress. Despite these individual differences concerning self-viewing in the mirror, systematic investigations on this topic have not been conducted so far.
Jonas Potthoff, Anne Schienle
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Self-esteem, victimisation and perception of peer relationships in obese children and adolescents [PDF]
, 2004 Obesity in childhood has been associated with psychosocial problems including low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction. Obese children and adolescents are vulnerable to overweight-related victimisation. This too has psychological consequences. This study
Baker, Charlotte
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Heliyon, 2018 Context: The body image research literature has addressed how young people perceive their self-image thoroughly. Seldom however were youths asked to draw their current vs.
Maryam Trebeau Crogman
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Body Schema Self-Awareness and Related Dream Content Modifications in Amputees Due to Cancer
Brain Sciences, 2021 Purpose: the evaluation of body image perception, pain coping strategies, and dream content, together with phantom limb and telescoping phenomena in patients with sarcoma who underwent surgery for limb amputation.
Alessandra Giordano +4 more
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Self perception and facial emotion perception of others in anorexia nervosa
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Background: Whether individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) are able to accurately perceive emotions from faces of others is unclear. Furthermore, whether individuals with AN process images of their own face differently to healthy individuals has thus far
Andrea ePhillipou +12 more
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Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 How attractive we find ourselves decides who we target as potential partners and influences our reproductive fitness. Self-perceptions on women's fertile days could be particularly important.
Lara Schleifenbaum +4 more
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Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In video games, identification with avatars—virtual entities or characters driven by human behavior—has been shown to serve many interpersonal and intraindividual functions (like social connection, self-expression, or identity exploration) but our ...
Mitchell G. H. Loewen +4 more
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