TARGET ARTICLE: Immersive Virtual Environment Technology as a Methodological Tool for Social Psychology
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Psychological Inquiry
- Vol. 13 (2) , 103-124
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327965pli1302_01
Abstract
Historically, at least 3 methodological problems have dogged experimental social psychology: the experimental control-mundane realism trade-off, lack of replication, and unrepresentative sampling. We argue that immersive virtual environment technology (IVET) can help ameliorate, if not solve, these methodological problems and, thus, holds promise as a new social psychological research tool. In this article, we first present an overview of IVET and review IVET-based research within psychology and other fields. Next, we propose a general model of social influence within immersive virtual environments and present some preliminary findings regarding its utility for social psychology. Finally, we present a new paradigm for experimental social psychology that may enable researchers to unravel the very fabric of social interaction.This publication has 59 references indexed in Scilit:
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