Month: June 2018
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Virtual Psychology
THE MIND IS (NOT JUST) THE BRAIN
by extropiadasilva Over on her blog, my dear friend Gwyneth Llewelyn has written an article called “Tackling The Self” which is…
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Virtual Imposters: Responses to Avatars That Do Not Look Like Their Controllers
Online bullies face aggression in the physical world when they are discovered, as Kathryn Segovia’s paper published in Social Influence demonstrates.
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Pregnancy and birth in SL
by Khoisan Fisher Just a quick post, since I’ve little time to write extensively at the moment and since, in any…
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It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Your Avatar Is Doing?
The psychologist Jeremy Bailenson’s quest to prepare us for the coming virtual world (ILLUSTRATION: RAYGUN STUDIO) January 8, 2013 • By Bonnie Tsui…
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Avatar therapy: From couch to cyberspace
The author is listed as “Samantha Murphy is a counsellor and freelance writer based in Pennsylvania“. Psychotherapy in a virtual world…
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In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives outside bodies in entirely re-imagined selves
In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives…
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Study Shows Virtual Therapy Outperforms Real-World Shrinks
Could virtual worlds be used to provide therapy to those who lack access to a real-world practitioner? That’s the premise of…
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VIRTUAL PSYCHOLOGY: A second life for practice?
Research suggests that using avatars in therapy, business consulting and training may be as effective as their real-life counterparts, and…
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Second Life’s cloud move could lower land prices, hurt OpenSim
BY DAVID KARIUKI · SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 Second Life is moving its architecture to the cloud, Linden Lab announced last week, and that might…
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