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Title: | Facilitating empathy through virtual reality | Contributor(s): | Schutte, Nicola (author) ; Stilinovic, Emma (author) | Publication Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11031-017-9641-7 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22510 | Abstract: | This research experimentally investigated whether virtual reality experience can prompt greater empathy and whether greater engagement with a virtual reality connects this virtual reality experience to empathy. Randomly assigned participants viewed a documentary featuring a young girl living in a refugee camp either in a virtual reality format or in a control two-dimensional format. Results indicated that the virtual reality experience resulted in greater engagement and a higher level of empathy for the refugee girl compared to the control condition. Greater engagement was a process connecting the virtual reality experience to empathy. Virtual reality has the potential to influence interpersonal emotions such as empathy. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Motivation and Emotion, 41(6), p. 708-712 | Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1573-6644 0146-7239 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520302 Clinical psychology 520304 Health psychology 520503 Personality and individual differences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200305 Mental health services | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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