What if you could, for a moment, have the body of someone of a different race, age, or sex?
Would that change the way you feel about yourself or the way that you stereotype different social groups? In a paper published online December 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers explain how they have used the brain’s ability to bring together information from different senses to make white people feel that they were inhabiting black bodies and adults feel like they had children’s bodies. The results of such virtual bodyswapping experiments are remarkable and have important implications for approaching phenomena such as race and gender discrimination.
Read more: Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people’s negative biases about others
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