MySpace Lab, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Exp Brain Res. 2023 Dec;241(11-12):2779-2793. doi: 10.1007/s00221-023-06719-1. Epub 2023 Oct 21.
We investigated whether and how social power affects the representation of peri-personal space (PPS). We applied a multisensory interaction task to assess PPS representation and the Personal Sense of Power Scale to assess participants' feelings of power over others' behaviors and over others' opinions. In Study 1, we probed PPS representation in a virtual social context. Participants with a higher sense of power showed a less defined differentiation between the close and far space as compared to participants with a lower sense of power. This effect was replicated in Study 2 when participants performed the task in a non-social context (with no person in the scene), but only after they were reminded of an episode of power. Thus, social power-the perception of power over others' behavior-affects the multisensory representation of the self in space by blurring the differentiation between one's own PPS and the space of others.
我们研究了社会权力是否以及如何影响个人空间（PPS）的表示。我们应用了一种多感觉互动任务来评估 PPS 的表示，以及个人权力感量表来评估参与者对他人行为和他人意见的权力感。在研究 1 中，我们在虚拟社交环境中探测 PPS 的表示。与权力感较低的参与者相比，权力感较高的参与者在近距离和远距离空间之间的区分不太明确。当参与者在非社交环境（场景中没有其他人）中执行任务时，这种效应在研究 2 中得到了复制，但只有在他们被提醒有权力的事件之后才会出现这种效应。因此，社会权力——对他人行为的权力感——通过模糊自己的 PPS 和他人空间之间的区分，影响了自我在空间中的多感觉表示。
