Personality variables and presence

Virtual Reality

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-13

  Wallach, Helene S ^a   Safir, Marilyn P ^a   Samana, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Empathy; Ethnicity; Gender; Imagination; Immersion; Locus of control; Presence; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EMPATHY; ETHNICITY; IMMERSIVE; LOCUS OF CONTROL; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PERSONALITY VARIABLES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER CRIME; DISSOCIATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952883705     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0124-3     Document Type: Article

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