Loneliness can be operationalized as the actual or perceived absence of those social
relationships that serve to meet basic emotional needs. In contrast to solitude, a chosen …

The Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT) was designed and is intended to measure the objective
ability to detect cardiac signals (also called cardiac interoceptive accuracy). Because …

The goal of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the Multidimensional Assessment of
Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), a popular self-report questionnaire claimed to assess the …

Objective: The current article discusses recent literature on perceptual processing in autism
and aims to provide a critical review of existing theories of autistic perception and …

We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing
framework (PPF). According to this framework, the difference between mental health and …

This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice,
explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social …

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a widely used tool in the study of multisensory integration.
It develops as the interaction of temporally consistent visual and tactile input, which can …

Objective: Altered interoception may play a major role in the etiology of medically
unexplained symptoms (MUS). It remains unclear, however, if these alterations concern …

Emotion theories emphasize the relevance of (predicted) bodily changes for the construction
of one's own emotions and an extensive overlap of brain regions involved during emotion …

Background Emerging literature has demonstrated deficits in interoception (ie, the
perception of physical sensations from inside the body) in individuals with chronic pain …