You Fill My Heart: Looking at One's Partner Increases Interoceptive Accuracy.
You Fill My Heart: Looking at One's Partner Increases Interoceptive Accuracy.
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10.1037/cns0000110
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发表时间：
2017-06
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Tsakiris M
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Maister L;Hodossy L;Tsakiris M
外部和内部身体信号的整合提供了一个连贯的，多感官的体验自己的身体。准确检测内部身体感觉的能力被称为内感受准确性（IAcc）。先前的研究发现，当低IAcc的人进行自我处理时，例如在照镜子或看自己的照片时，IAcc可以增加。然而，自我的表现方式会随着情境的变化而变化。具体而言，在社会情境中，自我是与重要的他人相关而不是作为一个孤立的个体来体验的。有趣的是，在一个关系的背景下，浪漫的伴侣可以被用作一个人自我的社会镜子。我们在这里调查是否引导一个人的注意力到浪漫的合作伙伴将提高一个人的IAcc，类似的效果，自我面对观察时，自我是孤立的处理。在心跳计数任务，同时自我面对和合作伙伴面对观察提高准确性，在那些最初低IAcc，然而，这种改善是显着更大的合作伙伴的脸。这些结果表明，重要的其他人可能在确定一个人的自我意识的质量发挥重要作用。考虑到高内感受性意识与更好的情绪调节有关，在伴侣观察期间增加IAcc可能会通过更大的情绪调节在维持稳定和安全的浪漫关系方面发挥适应性作用。
The integration of external and internal bodily signals provides a coherent, multisensory experience of one’s own body. The ability to accurately detect internal bodily sensations is referred to as interoceptive accuracy (IAcc). Previous studies found that IAcc can be increased when people with low IAcc engage in self-processing such as when looking in the mirror or at a photograph of one’s own face. However, the way the self is represented changes depending on the context. Specifically, in social situations, the self is experienced in relation to significant others and not as an isolated individual. Intriguingly, in a relational context romantic partners can be used as social mirrors for one’s self. We here investigated whether directing one’s attention to romantic partners would enhance one’s IAcc, similar to the effect of self-face observation when the self is processed in isolation. During a heartbeat counting task, both concurrent self-face and partner-face observation improved accuracy in those with initially low IAcc; however, this improvement was significantly greater for the partner’s face. These results suggest that significant others may play an important role in determining the quality of one’s self-awareness. Given that high interoceptive awareness is linked to better emotion regulation, increased IAcc during partner observation is likely to have an adaptive role in maintaining stable and secure romantic relationships through greater emotion regulation.