Short- and long-term effects of embodied experiences in immersive virtual environments on environmental locus of control and behavior

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 235-245

  Ahn, Sun Joo ^a   Bailenson, Jeremy N ^b   Park, Dooyeon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Conservation; Embodied experiences; Environmental behaviors; Environmental locus of control; Immersive virtual environments

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; EMBODIED EXPERIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOCUS OF CONTROL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTATION; FORESTRY;

EID: 84907360136     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.025     Document Type: Article

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