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As a virtual world teaming with avatars, Second Life shows promise as an experimental platform for social psychology. The first research paper that exploited this got attention at the end of last year – the authors claimed to have found evidence that some details of how we interact in the real world transfer to our avatar-avatar interactions. Now, there’s a great video out from NPR that brings these findings to life. |
The video has been making blog rounds, but the study behind it is being taken as mantra. Yee and colleagues’ work is indeed groundbreaking – but exploratory, not conclusive. Read the rest of this entry »
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