Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

Ep 235: Body Swapping - Now We Can Make You FEEL Like Someone Else

01.28.2015 - By Michael BrittPlay

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What if you could swap bodies with someone else? What would it be like to be someone of the opposite sex? A different race? We're getting darn close to being able to do that with new techniques like the Rubber Hand Illusion, the Enfacement illusion, and now the Full body illusion. You can now virtually switch bodies with someone else and thanks to our mirror neurons and other brain systems, you can have a very different sense of body ownership. Come listen to me talk about the latest research on this topic and some potential intriguing applications to problems like bullying.

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