Bystander Responses to a Violent Incident in an Immersive Virtual Environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Slater, Mel ^a,b,c   Rovira, Aitor ^b,c   Southern, Richard ^d   Swapp, David ^c   Zhang, Jian J ^d   Campbell, Claire ^e,f   Levine, Mark ^f,g  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b Facultat de Psicologia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VICTIM; VIDEORECORDING; VIOLENCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGGRESSION; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84871809582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052766     Document Type: Article

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