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A Virtual Out-of-Body Experience Reduces Fear of Death

  • Pierre Bourdin ,

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

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

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  • Itxaso Barberia ,

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

    Affiliations Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Ramon Oliva ,

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

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

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  • Mel Slater

    * E-mail: melslater@ub.edu

    Affiliations Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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

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A Virtual Out-of-Body Experience Reduces Fear of Death

  • Pierre Bourdin, 
  • Itxaso Barberia, 
  • Ramon Oliva, 
  • Mel Slater
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  • Published: January 9, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169343
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