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Posted by richardkolodziej on 25 Jan 2013 at 14:47 GMT

Hello,

how come you don't mention Kozlov and Johansen (2010) at all, who did nearly the same study three years ago?

Kozlov, M. D., & Johansen, M. K. (2010). Real Behavior in Virtual Environments: Psychology Experiments in a Simple Virtual-Reality Paradigm Using Video Games. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking, 13(6), 711–714. doi:10.1089/cyber.2009.0310

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RE: Literature

melslater replied to richardkolodziej on 26 Jan 2013 at 14:36 GMT

Thank you for pointing out this paper. There are several important differences with our paper.
(1) We focussed exclusively on the issue of group identify, i.e., whether the victim was in the same group (Arsenal supporter) or not as the single bystander. We did not, as in the cited study, manipulate the number of bystanders.
(2) This was a personal face-to-face encounter between the subject and the virtual characters involved, in the course of a violent argument between two people.
(3) The level of ecological validity was quite different between the two experiments - specifically in ours this took place in a Cave with life sized virtual characters,one of which spoke to and looked at the experimental participant. It is really very different to interact with such a character, by using your whole body in a more or less normal way, compared with a video-game type of interface where your whole body is not recruited into the interaction. We argued this point in http://www.frontiersin.or....

So overall both the scientific question and the methods were quite different between these two papers. Nevertheless we will take this paper into account in future publications.

Thanks for your comment.

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