Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, University of Poitiers, CNRS, France.
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Italy.
Conscious Cogn. 2020 Jan;77:102849. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102849. Epub 2019 Nov 14.
Experiencing tactile facial stimulation while seeing synchronous stimulations delivered to another's face induces enfacement, i.e. the subjective experience of ownership over the other's face. The synchronous Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation (IMS) procedure leading to enfacement induces changes beyond the bodily sense of self, such as increased feeling of closeness between self and other. However, evidence for such an influence of IMS on higher-level self-other representations remains limited. Moreover, research has been restricted to settings involving a same-sex other. The current study tested, in female participants, whether IMS could promote social closeness and attraction toward an opposite-sex other. Across two experiments, enfacement with an opposite-sex face was successfully obtained. Synchronous (vs. asynchronous) IMS yielded greater closeness with the other and induced greater Liking and Attraction scores. These novel findings add further evidence to the existence of a link between body representation and social cognition. Implications for interpersonal attraction are discussed.
当看到另一个人的面部接收到同步刺激时，同时体验触觉面部刺激会引起主体自身感（enfacement），即对他人面部的主观所有权体验。导致主体自身感的同步人际多感觉刺激（Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation，IMS）程序会引起超越身体自我感的变化，例如自我和他人之间的亲密感增加。然而，IMS 对更高层次的自我-他人表征的影响的证据仍然有限。此外，研究仅限于涉及同性他人的环境。本研究在女性参与者中测试了 IMS 是否可以促进与异性他人的社会亲近和吸引力。在两个实验中，均成功获得了对异性面孔的主体自身感。同步（而非异步）IMS 会产生与他人更大的亲近感，并诱导更大的喜欢和吸引力分数。这些新发现进一步证明了身体表征和社会认知之间存在联系。讨论了对人际吸引力的影响。
