Scientific Reports: Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 13:26
Scientific Reports
Andrew C. Gallup 1 , Daniil Vasilyev 2 , Nicola Anderson 2 & Alan Kingstone 2
Stemming from earlier laboratory research, we conducted five experiments to investigate the effects of social presence on contagious yawning in virtual reality (VR)...Unlike previous research, however, manipulating the social presence in VR (i.e., embedding recording devices and humanoid avatars within the simulation) did not affect contagious yawning.
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