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The use of virtual reality in studying prejudice and its reduction: A systematic review.
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- Brief Report: Virtual Reality to Raise Awareness About Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- The Effects of Internet-Based Storytelling Programs (Amazing Adventure Against Stigma) in Reducing Mental Illness Stigma With Mediation by Interactivity and Stigma Content: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Surrogate bias: Behavioral and physiological effects of seeing ingroup and outgroup virtual agents touching one's embodied avatar.Computers in human behavior reports · 2026Article
- Using a virtual reality role-playing game to enhance interaction dynamics and improve social attitudes toward transgender people.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Can avatar affective valence determine whether virtual reality embodiment reduces implicit workplace ageism?Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Evolution of networks in virtual reality: A scalable framework for studying social dynamics of small groups.PloS one · 2026Article
- A quantitative assessment of the hand kinematic features estimated by the oculus Quest 2.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Virtual reality offerings for wellbeing for and by marginalized populations: A scoping review on equity and intersectionality.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- Attitudes towards women in the military and their relation to both quantity and quality contact with female leaders.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Quantitative Comparison of Hand Kinematics Measured with a Markerless Commercial Head-Mounted Display and a Marker-Based Motion Capture System in Stroke Survivors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- I can see my virtual body in a mirror: The role of visual perspective in changing implicit racial attitudes using virtual reality.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
This systematic review provides an up-to-date analysis of existing literature about Virtual Reality (VR) and prejudice. How has VR been used in studying intergroup attitudes, bias and prejudice, are VR interventions effective at reducing prejudice, and what methodological advantages and limitations does VR provide compared to traditional methods are the questions we aim to answer. The included studies had to use VR to create an interaction with one or more avatars belonging to an outgroup, and/or embodiment in an outgroup member; furthermore, they had to be quantitative and peer-reviewed. The review of the 64 included studies shows the potential of VR contact to improve intergroup relations. Nevertheless, the results suggest that under certain circumstances VR contact can increase prejudice as well. We discuss these results in relation to the intergroup perspective (i.e., minority or majority) and target minority groups used in the studies. An analysis of potential mediators and moderators is also carried out. We then identify and address the most pressing theoretical and methodological issues concerning VR as a method to reduce prejudice.
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