Through with the looking glass: Escape responses to implicit mirror exposure

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• 作者：Christopher T. Burris^a ; ^{cburris@uwaterloo.ca} ; Eugene Lai^b ; ^{eugenelai3@gmail.com}
• 关键词：Mirror ; Embodiment ; Self-awareness ; Transcendence ; Cognitive deconstruction ; Flow ; Meaning
• 刊名：Consciousness and Cognition
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：127_10538100
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：March, 2012
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：464-470
• 文件大小：266 K

摘要

Based on the assumption that confrontation with one鈥檚 physical reflection can be aversive, we explored the appeal of possible 鈥渆scape routes鈥?when incidentally exposed to one鈥檚 mirror image. Compared to their no-exposure peers, individuals who felt less chronically 鈥渢rapped鈥?in their bodies showed increased interest in flow experiences and decreased interest in experiences involving low-level thinking or a subjective sense of meaning when exposed to their reflection. Mirror exposure also increased overall interest in 鈥減ure consciousness events,鈥?wherein the transcendence of space and time figures centrally. The aversive effects of even implicit confrontation with one鈥檚 reflection therefore seem more diverse than anticipated based on existing frameworks such as Objective Self-Awareness theory, so additional theoretical development seems warranted.