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I Am Not The Phantom Hand! Exploring The Effects Of Illusory Ownership Of An Other-Race Rubber Hand On Racial Identity In Racial Minorities, Evan Jacoby

Senior Projects Spring 2017

White American is generally accepted to be the culturally dominant race in America, though the psychological effects of racial imbalance are not fully understood. Such ambiguity invites the question of whether people of different racial backgrounds perceive racial bias differently. To explore this question, the present study primes individuals to perceive themselves as members of a different race using a Rubber Hand Illusion. While prior literature has found that the perceived ownership of an outgroup hand reduces preferential bias towards that outgroup for White Americans, (Farmer et al., 2014), I hypothesized that these effects would extend to Black Americans, which …