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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Effects of Social Proneness and Avatar Primes on Prosocial Behavior in Virtual and Real Worlds

Authors : Yu-chen Hsu, Siao-wei Huang, Hsuan-de Huang

Published in: HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Prosocial behavior is a stable personality trait that is developed in the process as a person grows up and is continuing to be changed by environmental factors. There are many studies exploring the phenomena of prosocial behavior, but few of them are studied in the virtual environment. Nowadays, teenagers spend a lot of time role-playing in the virtual environment. Past studies have confirmed that virtual experience will have a certain impact on their lives in the real world. If we can design avatars and tasks to change teenagers’ prosocial beliefs and behaviors in the virtual world through roleplay and to achieve sustainable behavior change in the real world, it will become an alternative channel for training in educational context. …

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Metadata
Title
The Effects of Social Proneness and Avatar Primes on Prosocial Behavior in Virtual and Real Worlds
Authors
Yu-chen Hsu
Siao-wei Huang
Hsuan-de Huang
Copyright Year
2021
Book
HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-90175-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-90176-9

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90176-9_41