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How experiencing discrimination in VR can make you less biased, Big Think

How experiencing discrimination in VR can make you less biased, <b>Big Think</b>

What would it be like to live in the body of someone else? In this video Jeremy Bailenson describes how virtual reality experiences can increase empathy for others.

We Are VR: Will virtual reality make you virtuous?, <b>PRX Big Picture Science</b>

Host Seth Shostak puts on a VR headset at VHIL for an immersive experience of a man who’s evicted from his apartment. Jeremy Bailenson says the experience creates empathy and sparks activism to address homelessness.

Using virtual reality to make you more empathetic in real life, <b>The Washington Post</b>

VHIL is studying 1,000 volunteers from the San Francisco Bay area, assessing their reactions to homelessness by dividing them into four groups and exposing them to the issue using four types of media.

Using Virtual Reality to Avoid Catastrophe, <b>Popular Science</b>

VHIL researchers hope to make their virtual reality "field trip" a vital conservation tool, aiming to give its "travelers" as real an experience as possible. The goal is to get people to understand in a visceral way what climate change is doing to the oceans.

Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic?, <b>Wired</b>

VR scenarios could be more effective than the traditional public service ad at making people behave. Afterwards, they waste less paper. They save more money for retirement. They’re nicer to the people around them.

How virtual reality can change how you act toward others, <b>CBS News</b>

"Virtual reality is not a media experience. When it's done well, it's an actual experience," says Jeremy Bailenson "In general, our findings show that VR causes more behavior change, causes more engagement, causes more influence than other types of traditional media."

Virtual reality tested by NFL as tool to confront racism, sexism, <b>USA Today</b>

VHIL's diversity demos are designed to transport users into unfamiliar and unsettling realms. In one scenario, a user is represented by an African-American female avatar who is being angrily harassed by a white avatar. When the user reflexively lifts his or her arms in self-defense, the hands feature black skin.

The See Change, <b>Stanford Magazine</b>

We are going from essentially no VR to potentially pervasive use of the most powerful medium ever. VHIL studies the consequences of a world where anything can happen at the touch of a button and feel like it’s actually happening.

Tested Visits Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab!, <b>Tested</b>

While we've seen and used many virtual reality products aimed at consumers, there's also a lot of research in academia using virtual reality to study human psychology and behavior.

Virtual reality’s promise, risk loom large for health researchers, <b>USA Today</b>

VHIL research shows that virtual reality's powerful impact on the brain can be used to generate realistic levels of empathy and tangible reductions in pain.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell steps into virtual reality at Stanford, <b>Stanford Report</b>

During a visit to VHIL, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell learned how virtual experiences could improve training and officiating, and also teach players empathy on a variety of social issues.

How might virtual reality change the world? Stanford lab peers into future, <b>CBS News</b>

VHIL studies how very intense experience in the virtual world changes you in the real world and shows how virtual reality can be a tool to teach you about yourself and to teach you empathy.

Using virtual reality to overcome fear, reduce prejudice, <b>USA Today</b>

VHIL research translates into helping people combat fears, become more empathetic and reduce prejudice.

Seeing The Future (Through $40,000 Goggles) At Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab, <b>Forbes</b>

To learn why got Facebook so excited, a team from FORBES went to Stanford for a tour of our own recently. Jeremy Bailenson put them through a number of simulations designed to demonstrate how people experience virtual environments and how VR can be a tool for improving lives.

If You Know How a Cow Feels, Will You Eat Less Meat?, <b>Scientific American</b>

VHIL research hopes to uncover whether virtual reality can alter behaviors that tax the environment and contribute to climate change.

Stanford experiment shows that virtual superpowers encourage real-world empathy, <b>Stanford Report</b>

While several studies have shown that playing violent videogames can encourage aggressive behavior, VHIL research suggests that games could be designed to train people to be more empathetic in the real world.

Meet ‘Future You.’ Like What You See?, <b>The Wall Street Journal</b>

To increase retirement investment by young people researchers are tapping into the Proteus effect, behavioral alterations in the real world that are triggered by changes in how our bodies appear to us in a virtual world.

Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real, <b>The New York Times</b>

The evidence that inhabiting another’s perspective can change behavior comes in part from VHIL virtual reality experiments.

Our Imaginary, Hotter Selves, <b>Newsweek</b>

Proteus effect research at VHIL – the effect of appearance on behavior carries over from the virtual world to the real one.

How experiencing discrimination in VR can make you less biased, Big Think

We Are VR: Will virtual reality make you virtuous?, PRX Big Picture Science

Using virtual reality to make you more empathetic in real life, The Washington Post

Using Virtual Reality to Avoid Catastrophe, Popular Science

Can VR Really Make You More Empathetic?, Wired

How virtual reality can change how you act toward others, CBS News

Virtual reality tested by NFL as tool to confront racism, sexism, USA Today

Virtual reality’s promise, risk loom large for health researchers, USA Today

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell steps into virtual reality at Stanford, Stanford Report

How might virtual reality change the world? Stanford lab peers into future, CBS News

Using virtual reality to overcome fear, reduce prejudice, USA Today

Seeing The Future (Through $40,000 Goggles) At Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab, Forbes

If You Know How a Cow Feels, Will You Eat Less Meat?, Scientific American

Stanford experiment shows that virtual superpowers encourage real-world empathy, Stanford Report

Meet ‘Future You.’ Like What You See?, The Wall Street Journal

Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real, The New York Times

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