ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Causal Interactive Links Between Presence and Fear in Virtual Reality Height Exposure.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Emotion Recognition in Immersive Virtual Reality: From Statistics to Affective Computing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- Questionnaire Measures and Physiological Correlates of Presence: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Haptic feedback as affective amplifier: enhanced fear perception affects cognitive performance and avoidance actions in VR height exposure.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Reducing School Anxiety in Adolescents: Pilot Study.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- IAVRS-International Affective Virtual Reality System: Psychometric Assessment of 360° Images by Using Psychophysiological Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The presence of fear: How subjective fear, not physiological changes, shapes the experience of presence.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
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- A Perspective on Using Virtual Reality to Incorporate the Affective Context of Everyday Falls Into Fall Prevention.JMIR aging · 2023Article
- The reality of virtual reality.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- An internet-based treatment for flying phobia using 360° images: A feasibility pilot study.Internet interventions · 2022Article
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Abstract
Virtual reality plays an increasingly important role in research and therapy of pathological fear. However, the mechanisms how virtual environments elicit and modify fear responses are not yet fully understood. Presence, a psychological construct referring to the 'sense of being there' in a virtual environment, is widely assumed to crucially influence the strength of the elicited fear responses, however, causality is still under debate. The present study is the first that experimentally manipulated both variables to unravel the causal link between presence and fear responses. Height-fearful participants (
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