Perceiving interpersonally-mediated risk in virtual environments |
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Authors: | David B Portnoy Natalie D Smoak Kerry L Marsh |
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Affiliation: | (1) Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;(2) National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA;(3) Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | Using virtual reality (VR) to examine risky behavior that is mediated by interpersonal contact, such as agreeing to have sex,
drink, or smoke with someone, offers particular promise and challenges. Social contextual stimuli that might trigger impulsive
responses can be carefully controlled in virtual environments (VE), and yet manipulations of risk might be implausible to
participants if they do not feel sufficiently immersed in the environment. The current study examined whether individuals
can display adequate evidence of presence in a VE that involved potential interpersonally-induced risk: meeting a potential
dating partner. Results offered some evidence for the potential of VR for the study of such interpersonal risk situations.
Participants’ reaction to the scenario and risk-associated responses to the situation suggested that the embodied nature of
virtual reality override the reality of the risk’s impossibility, allowing participants to experience adequate situational
embedding, or presence. |
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