Changing bodies changes minds: owning another body affects social cognition

•Multisensory correlations can induce illusory ownership of another person's body. •Ownership can thus be induced over a body of a different race, age, or gender. •Incorporating a body belonging to a social outgroup changes implicit social biases. •The multisensory experience of the body underpins higher-level social attitudes. Research on stereotypes demonstrates how existing prejudice affects the way we process outgroups. Recent studies have...