Theoretical modeling of self-consciousness and social understanding on the basis of qualitative research on perspective-conversion experiences

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12634
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka Shogo 東海大学, 現代教養センター, 教授 (40408018)
• Research Collaborator: 浅井 智久 ATR, 認知神経科学研究室, 研究員 ; 植田 嘉好子 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉学部, 講師 ; 嶋田 総太郎 明治大学, 理工学部, 教授 ; 長尾 秀行 国立スポーツ科学センター, スポーツ科学部, 研究員 ; 能智 正博 東京大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 ; 宮崎 美智子 大妻女子大学, 社会情報学部, 専任講師 ; 宮原 克典 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 ; 渡辺 恒夫 東邦大学, 名誉教授 ; Darren Langdridge The Open University, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Professor ; Denis Francesconi University of Verona, Faculty of Medicine, Adjunct Lecturer ; Luca Tateo Aalborg University, Centre for Cultural Psychology, Associate Professor ; Marc Applebaum Saybrook University, Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, Adjunct Lecturer ; Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy, Professor ; Susi Ferrallelo University of San Francisco, Department of Philosophy, Adjunct Lecturer ; Thomas Fuchs Heidelberg University Hospital, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Professor ; Lee Wei-Lun National Dong Hwa University, Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology, Professor ; Yochai Ataria Tel-Hai College, Senior Lecturer
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自己意識 / 身体化された自己 / 所有感（sense of pwnership) / 主体感（sense of agency） / 反省的自己意識 / フルボディ錯覚 / 離人症 / 現象学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aims to propose a theoretical model of self-consciousness and social understanding on the basis of qualitative research on “perspective-conversion experience,” which is designed for a participant to experience one’s own body through visual perspectives located outside of it using video camera and HMD. Analyzing the interview data of eight participants, it is suggested that perspective-conversion experience may split the participant’s self-awareness into two: (a) the self that is identified with the outer perspective, and (b) the self that derives from somatosensory perception. Although we are accustomed to imagine ourselves from another person’s perspective in our daily life, visually perceiving our own body from outer perspectives could promote the spatial split and/or extension of the self.

Free Research Field

身体性哲学，現象学的心理学，意識科学