technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
In a recent issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Minocha, Tran and Reeves (2010) ((Minocha, S., Tran, M. Q., & Reeves, A. J. (2010). Conducting empirical research in virtual worlds: Experiences from...
A recent study by Weibel, Wissmath and Mast (2010) examines the Big Five personality correlates of immersion in virtual environments, finding that high Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, and Extraversion are positively related to the tendency to be immersed.
If you’re physically attractive, the world simply treats you better. But what about virtual attractiveness? Do people react to the attractiveness of virtual people the same way they react to real people?
We may be on the opposite side of a virtual worlds bubble, but that has absolutely no impact on what should be our core concern: can virtual worlds be used to minimize costs or improve outcomes for workers, and how do we do it?
A recent article in Newsweek discussed the use of online games like Farmville and virtual worlds like Second Life for studying human behavior when buying and selling goods, a field called behavioral economics. Consider...
Several pieces have been floating around in the last week or so on virtual crime. It centers around a basic question: is interpersonal crime committed in a virtual space really crime if there is no real-world corollary?