Virtual mortality and near-death experience after a prolonged exposure in a shared virtual reality may lead to positive life-attitude changes

• Itxaso Barberia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Itxaso Barberia, Ramon Oliva, Pierre Bourdin

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Affiliation Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ramon Oliva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Itxaso Barberia, Ramon Oliva, Pierre Bourdin

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Pierre Bourdin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Itxaso Barberia, Ramon Oliva, Pierre Bourdin

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications Department, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  Affiliation Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Mel Slater

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: melslater@ub.edu

  Affiliation Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6223-0050

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