Description du projet
Une nouvelle façon radicale d’examiner le concept d’image corporelle
La beauté est-elle dans l’œil du spectateur, ou la technologie moderne influence-t-elle notre perception de l’image corporelle et de notre propre attrait? Le projet METABODY, financé par l’UE, explorera cette question. Il propose un nouveau concept d’imagination corporelle pour capturer l’idée que notre image corporelle n’est pas une représentation fixe dans le cerveau, mais plutôt une inférence dynamique basée sur des attentes antérieures et de nouvelles informations. Il testera l’hypothèse selon laquelle les perturbations de l’image corporelle ne sont pas le résultat de biais uniquement dans la capacité d’une personne à percevoir son corps, mais aussi dans sa capacité à évaluer la fiabilité de ces perceptions dans des contextes donnés.
Objectif
We live in a socio-economic world that affords us with increasing options and technologies to control and present our bodily appearance to others, including by managing our eating habits, or by digital and even surgical body modification. These proliferating phenomena raise the age-old question of how we negotiate the balance between the invariance and invention of our identity. Addressing this question in relation to modern body image phenomena requires a radical new way of studying the concept of body image. METABODY proposes the novel concept of Body Imagining to capture the idea that our body image is not a fixed representation in the brain, but rather a dynamic inference based on prior expectations and new information. Studying the balance between prior beliefs and new information could thus hold the key to understanding modern body image phenomena. Moreover, existing studies have failed to investigate the metacognitive level of these inferences. METABODY will test the novel hypothesis that body image disturbances are not the result of biases merely in the 1st order ability to perceive one’s body, but also in the 2nd order ability to evaluate the reliability of these perceptions in given contexts. Specifically, three empirical work-packages will study how individuals balance their own embodied experience against: (1) external perspectives on the body during multisensory perception (Body Metacognition), (2) social perspectives during interpersonal encounters (Body Mentalizing) and (3) future and ideal body perspectives during decisions about body modification options with uncertain outcome (Body Decision Making). Ultimately, METABODY will address in innovative ways the timely question of how we negotiate the balance between the invariance and invention of our identity in a time when changing the body is offered as an easy way to change the self.
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Appel à propositions
(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) ERC-2018-COG
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
WC1E 6BT London
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