What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine: the concept of ownership and distance perception

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Previous research has indicated that the concept of ownership impacts the visuomotor system but the influence it has on distance perception has not been examined. In Experiment 1, motion capture was utilized as participants placed owned, unowned and other-owned mugs at one of three distances from themselves. Based on past findings, it was expected that 23 participants would underestimate distances for their own mug and would overestimate distances for the other-owned mug. Results suggest an aversion to interact with other-owned objects as ownership was found to influence peak lift height and movement duration but not distance perception. Experiment 2 was run concurrently and we speculated the influence of ownership on distance perception should be bidirectional: a near-placed object should be perceived more readily as owned by the participant interacting with it, than a far-placed object. For each trial 36 participants placed one of three mugs on one of three designated places in front

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