042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister by You Are Not So Smart published on 2015-01-28T18:53:09Z Scientists are using rubber hands and virtual reality to transfer people's minds into avatars designed to look like members of groups and subcultures to which the subjects do not belong, and the results have been - well, trippy. Can changing your body, even just for a few minutes, change your mind. Can a psychological body transfer melt away long-held opinions and unconscious prejudices? Learn what cognitive neuroscientist Lara Maister has discovered in her unconventional experiments. Genre bias Comment by draxtor ...super interesting subject! We live in exciting times with the hardware making advances in VR but immersion and emphatic behavior happens in SecondLife even without goggles simply because of investment into the avatar and the culture. Immersion without HMDs? YES!!!!! 2015-01-30T23:30:04Z
