Alexithymia predicts the malleability of bodily representations in adolescents
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Abstract
Background: Body-ownership involves an attentional focus on and awareness of internal body sensations. While it is known that abnormalities in body-ownership occur in eating disorders, relevant psychological variables modulating body-ownership remain unclear. First empirical results evidence that body-ownership is associated with alexithymia in adults. Therefore, we wanted to explore the relationship between alexithymia and body-ownership in adolescents in more detail. Methods: 54 (28 female) participants aged between 11 and 17 years were examined. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale, a common self-report questionnaire, was used to assess affective and cognitive aspects of alexithymia. A multi-sensory-induced manipulation of body-ownership, the rubberhand illusion (RHI), was then introduced, probing the malleability of body ownership and operationalizing the strength of the illusion using behavioural (proprioceptive drift), physiological (temperature change) and introspective measures (subjective feelings). Findings: High scores in alexithymia (affective subscale difficulties in identifying feeling) were associated with a stronger body-illusion tendency (behavioral and subjective measures). Discussion: The observed positive relationship between alexithymia and the RHI suggests an increased malleability of the bodily self in adolescents which might serve as risk-factor for disturbed embodiment.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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