In one famous study, the neuroscientists could demonstrate that research subjects with white skin revealed a significant reduction of implicit racial bias after seeing themselves from the first-person perspective of a digital avatar with dark skin. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon the Body Transfer Illusion (or the Full Body Ownership Illusion.Ĭurious about the psychological consequences of experiencing oneself as a different body, the scientists used Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to for many different experimental set-ups and designs. It didn’t matter, if the «new body» was of a digital avatar or of a plastic mannequin. In these neuroscientific experiments, the psychological and physiological responses of research subjects suggested that they felt as if they had a different body. These illusions can generate the feeling of having a different body or of being the body of another person. Be it stories, ebooks or videos.Neuroscientific research has developed ways to create fascinating cognitive illusions. Come here and trade ideas.Ī place for help and advice on your writing, and finding beta readers and editors.Ģ2 Topics 110 Posts Last post by MitchT333Ī place to talk about anything that doesn't quite fit into any other place.Ģ5 Topics 83 Posts Last post by jeffersonĪ place to sell are your transformation related wares. ) in a certain transformative genre? Looking for a story you can only half-remember? Ask for guidance from your fellow members here.ġ273 Topics 4758 Posts Last post by Chupipupi10Ĭoordinate your fun with your fellow members here.Ĥ03 Topics 1246 Posts Last post by Sportsfanĭo you have an idea for a story, or are you looking for a story to write. Want to talk about transformation of any sort? Not covered by one of the subforums ('looking for', linkage, etc.) detailed below? Here's your place to do it!ġ86 Topics 861 Posts Last post by SaoirseCook Want to talk about the site itself - problems, technical issues, ideas, etc.? Here's the place to do it!ħ2 Topics 484 Posts Last post by OtherworldlyDelightsĢ15 Topics 417 Posts Last post by sidfridt9 Announcements from The Changing Mirror's administrators.Ģ2 Topics 132 Posts Last post by jefferson

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