Meeting others virtually in a day-to-day setting: Investigating social avoidance and prosocial behavior towards avatars and agents
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Highlights：
• Empathy predicts prosocial behavior towards virtual characters.
• No differences in stress, social presence and physical presence regarding agency.
• Interacting with avatars leads to higher psychological involvement and empathy.
• Prosocial behavior and social avoidance are more likely with avatars than agents.
• No avatar-agent difference in intuitive reactions, but in complex responses.
摘要
•Empathy predicts prosocial behavior towards virtual characters.•No differences in stress, social presence and physical presence regarding agency.•Interacting with avatars leads to higher psychological involvement and empathy.•Prosocial behavior and social avoidance are more likely with avatars than agents.•No avatar-agent difference in intuitive reactions, but in complex responses.
论文关键词：Virtual reality,Avatar,Agent,Prosocial behavior,Empathy,Social presence
论文评审过程：Received 17 September 2017, Revised 12 November 2017, Accepted 21 November 2017, Available online 21 November 2017, Version of Record 6 December 2017.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.11.031
