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Virtual reality in psychological research

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Virtual reality offers psychological researchers the opportunity to study human cognition and behaviour in a highly controllable environment. Three-dimensional visual scenes can be created that provide an immersive and much more naturalistic experience than more traditional psychological methods including vignettes or video clips, and likely evoke more genuine responses. As such, the use of virtual reality has gained popularity in various areas of psychological research - from social to cognitive and even clinical research.

This Collection contains original research from all areas of psychology studying human cognition or behaviour using virtual reality.

Young woman wearing virtual reality headset by a male colleague using a digital tablet. Startup business colleagues testing out virtual reality glasses in the office.

Editors

Takahiro Kawabe is a Senior Distinguished Researcher, the Leader of Sensory Representation Group, Human Information Science Laboratories, NTT Communication Science Laboratories. He studies basic and applied aspects of human perception. Dr Kawabe has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.

 

 

 

Alessandro Pepe is an Assistant Professor at the "Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences for Education, University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy. His research interests have centred on aspects of trauma and well-being in vulnerable and at-risk populations in the field of psychological sciences. The contribution to the field of research has been divided into two parts. To begin, an understanding of the promoting and risk factors related to well-being and quality of life in potentially traumatic situations is required. Second, an attempt was made to develop, but from a methodological standpoint, qualitative and quantitative research processes capable of best understanding these research topics. Dr Pepe has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2022.

 

Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, is a full Professor in Electronic and Information Bioengineering at the University of Pisa. He leads the Biolab laboratory at the Information Engineering Department, coordinating two European projects in the frameworks FP7 and H2020 in the field of personalised health systems for predicting the onset of mood disorders. Currently he coordinates a FET project on the modelling and characterization of emotional body odours. His main research interests are in wearable monitoring systems, affective computing, virtual reality and social robotics, human-computer interfaces, biomedical and biomechanical signal processing, modelling, control and instrumentation. Prof Scilingo has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2017.