Social exclusion in a virtual Cyberball game reduces the virtual hand illusion

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Abstract

Sense of ownership and agency are two important aspects of the minimal self, but how self-perception is affected by social conditions remains unclear. Here, we studied how social inclusion or exclusion of participants in the course of a virtual Cyberball game would affect explicit judgments and implicit measures of ownership and agency (proprioceptive drift, skin conductance responses, and intentional binding, respectively) in a virtual hand illusion paradigm, in which a virtual hand moved in or out of sync with the participants’ own hand. Results show that synchrony affected all four measures. More importantly, this effect interacted with social inclusion/exclusion in the Cyberball game for both ownership and agency measure, showing that social exclusion reduces perceived agency and ownership.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2345-2356
Number of pages12
JournalPsychonomic Bulletin and Review
Volume31
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 38565842
ORCID /0000-0003-4731-5125/work/173514161

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • Intentional binding, Sense of agency, Sense of ownership, Social exclusion, Virtual hand illusion