The virtual doppelganger: Effects of a virtual reality simulator on perceptions of schizophrenia

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 437-443

  Kalyanaraman, Sriram ^a   Penn, David L ^a   Ivory, James D ^b   Judge, Abigail ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Schizophrenia; Simulation; Social distance; Technology; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STEREOTYPING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77953338736     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e07d66     Document Type: Article

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