Humans adjust virtual comfort-distance towards an artificial agent depending on their sexual orientation and implicit prejudice against gay men
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Highlights：
• We explore if sexual orientation and sexual prejudice affect interpersonal distance.
• We test interpersonal comfort-distance using Immersive Virtual Reality.
• Participants' sexual orientation shapes distance towards male and female avatars.
• Prejudice against gay men leads heterosexual men to avoid male avatars.
• Proxemics rules may be similar in real and virtual worlds.
摘要
•We explore if sexual orientation and sexual prejudice affect interpersonal distance.•We test interpersonal comfort-distance using Immersive Virtual Reality.•Participants' sexual orientation shapes distance towards male and female avatars.•Prejudice against gay men leads heterosexual men to avoid male avatars.•Proxemics rules may be similar in real and virtual worlds.
论文关键词：Interpersonal comfort-distance,Immersive virtual reality,Virtual proxemics,Sex differences| sexuality,Sexual prejudice
论文评审过程：Received 7 October 2020, Revised 6 July 2021, Accepted 7 July 2021, Available online 14 July 2021, Version of Record 20 July 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106948
