The enemy’s gaze: Immersive virtual environments enhance peace promoting attitudes and emotions in violent intergroup conflicts
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Yossi Hasson aff001; Noa Schori-Eyal aff002; Daniel Landau aff003; Béatrice S. Hasler aff003; Jonathan Levy aff002; Doron Friedman aff003; Eran Halperin aff001
Působiště autorů:
Psychology Department, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
aff001; School of Psychology, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
aff002; School of Communications, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
aff003; Department of Media, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
aff004
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PLoS ONE 14(9)
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Research Article
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222342
Souhrn
Perspective-taking is essential for improving intergroup relations. However, it is difficult to implement, especially in violent conflicts. Given that immersive virtual reality (VR) can simulate various points of view (POV), we examined whether it can lead to beneficial outcomes by promoting outgroup perspective-taking, even in armed conflicts. In two studies, Jewish-Israelis watched a 360° VR scene depicting an Israeli-Palestinian confrontation from different POVs–outgroup’s, ingroup’s while imagining outgroup perspective or ingroup’s without imagined perspective-taking. Participants immersed in the outgroup’s POV, but not those who imagined the outgroup’s perspective, perceived the Palestinians more positively than those immersed in the ingroup’s POV. Moreover, participants in the outgroup’s POV perceived the Palestinian population in general more favorably and judged a real-life ingroup transgression more strictly than those in the ingroup’s POV, even five months after VR intervention. Results suggest that VR can promote conflict resolution by enabling effective perspective-taking.
Klíčová slova:
Biology and life sciences – Engineering and technology – Research and analysis methods – Neuroscience – Cognitive science – Cognitive psychology – Psychology – Social sciences – Computer and information sciences – Research design – Behavior – Survey research – Emotions – Anxiety – Political science – Questionnaires – Social cognition – Social psychology – Human factors engineering – Man-computer interface – Virtual reality – Computer architecture – User interfaces – Fear – Prosocial behavior – War and civil unrest
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