The evidence that inhabiting another’s perspective can change behavior comes in part from VHIL virtual reality experiments.
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Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real, The New York Times
Mimicry, Weird Connections
People spend many hours a week interacting with digital others. VHIL uses the virtual world as a tool to understand the implications of this new form of social interaction.
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Study Links Voters’ Choices to Facial Features, Stanford Daily
VHIL research shows that voters are subconsciously attracted to candidates whose facial features resemble their own.
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Researchers Say Voters Swayed by Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Stanford Report
VHIL experiments during presidential and gubernatorial elections indicate that facial similarity is enough to clinch votes.
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Digital Selves, KALW Philosophy Talk
What makes your digital self you? What does your choice of digital selves show about you? And what makes onscreen representation more or less effective as digital selves? Radio interview with Jeremy Bailenson.
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Vote for You!, ABC News ScienCentral
Can facial similarity determine the result of a presidential election? VHIL face morphing research suggests that voters make decisions about candidates on very superficial features.
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The (Not So) Real World, Palo Alto Weekly
VHIL researchers found that people will conform to the expectations and stereotypes of the identity of their avatars.
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Virtual Reality Check, NBC The Today Show
If your avatar looks different from you, perhaps in some ideal way, how does that make you behave? The Today Show profiles VHIL virtual reality exercise research.
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How Second Life Affects Real Life, Time Magazine
Jeremy Bailenson's research suggests that the qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world.
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Learning from the Virtual You, NPR All Things Considered
Andrea Seabrook speaks with Jeremy Bailenson about his research into how people interact psychologically with their virtual-reality representations.
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The Avatar’s Influence, The Chronicle of Higher Education
VHIL research shows that what people do in virtual reality doesn't always stay in virtual reality. Issue also features an opinion piece by Jeremy Bailenson on the benefits of virtual classrooms.
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Our Imaginary, Hotter Selves, Newsweek
Proteus effect research at VHIL – the effect of appearance on behavior carries over from the virtual world to the real one.
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Seeing Is Believing, Stanford Magazine
Maybe virtual reality isn't just a game anymore. Maybe its a way to build a better you. VHIL researchers are testing whether avatars can tell us something deeper about human behavior.
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