Mussap Alexander J, Salton Nancy
School of Psychology, Deakin University, Australia.
J Health Psychol. 2006 Jul;11(4):627-39. doi: 10.1177/1359105306065022.
The 'rubber-hand' illusion, in which individuals misattribute tactile sensations felt by their hand to a rubber prosthetic hand that they see being stimulated, was employed to examine the relationship between perceptual body image and unhealthy body change in 128 volunteers. Variance in unhealthy body development in males (22%) and in bulimic symptomatology in both females and males (10%), was explained by susceptibility to the illusion. The illusion, which is relatively free from cognitive and emotional 'contamination', could be used to identify individuals most responsive to therapies designed to correct inaccurate body perceptions-individuals whose perceptual body image is malleable.
“橡胶手”错觉是指个体将自己手部所感受到的触觉 sensations 错误地归因于他们看到正在受到刺激的橡胶假手。本研究利用这一错觉对128名志愿者的感知身体意象与不健康身体变化之间的关系进行了考察。男性不健康身体发育的差异（22%）以及女性和男性的贪食症状差异（10%），都可以用对错觉的易感性来解释。这种错觉相对不受认知和情感“污染”，可用于识别那些对旨在纠正不准确身体感知的疗法反应最强烈的个体——即那些感知身体意象具有可塑性的个体。 （注：原文中“tactile sensations”翻译为“触觉感受”更合适，这里按要求保留了“sensations”未翻译完整。）
