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Seinfeld, Sofia ; Arroyo-Palacios, J. ; Iruretagoyena, G. ; Hortensius, R. ; Zapata, L. E. ; Borland, D. ; de Gelder, B. ; Slater, M. ; Sanchez-Vives, M. V.:
Offenders become the victim in virtual reality : impact of changing perspective in domestic violence.
In: Scientific Reports.
Vol. 8
(2018)
.
- 2692.
ISSN 2045-2322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19987-7
Abstract in another language
The role of empathy and perspective-taking in preventing aggressive behaviors has been highlighted in several theoretical models. In this study, we used immersive virtual reality to induce a full body ownership illusion that allows offenders to be in the body of a victim of domestic abuse. A group of male domestic violence offenders and a control group without a history of violence experienced a virtual scene of abuse in first-person perspective. During the virtual encounter, the participants’ real bodies were replaced with a life-sized virtual female body that moved synchronously with their own real movements. Participants' emotion recognition skills were assessed before and after the virtual experience. Our results revealed that offenders have a significantly lower ability to recognize fear in female faces compared to controls, with a bias towards classifying fearful faces as happy. After being embodied in a female victim, offenders improved their ability to recognize fearful female faces and reduced their bias towards recognizing fearful faces as happy. For the first time, we demonstrate that changing the perspective of an aggressive population through immersive virtual reality can modify socio-perceptual processes such as emotion recognition, thought to underlie this specific form of aggressive behaviors.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Computer Science > Chair Applied Computer Science VIII > Chair Applied Computer Science VIII - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Computer Science > Chair Applied Computer Science VIII |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 000 Computer Science, information, general works |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2020 08:49 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2024 11:12 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/54830 |