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SUBMITTER: Tacikowski P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7463009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tacikowski Pawel P Fust Jens J Ehrsson H Henrik HH
Scientific reports 20200901 1
Gender identity is a collection of thoughts and feelings about one's own gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth. How this sense is linked to the perception of one's own masculine or feminine body remains unclear. Here, in a series of three behavioral experiments conducted on a large group of control volunteers (N = 140), we show that a perceptual illusion of having the opposite-sex body is associated with a shift toward a more balanced identification with both gende ...[more]