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24 Oct 12
Blakelee HA man tells the story of how the virtual world, Second Life, negatively affects his real life. It takes a physical and mental toll.
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About a year ago in my first visit to Second Life, the popular online virtual world, I spent half an hour trying to make my avatar, or online character, look like a hotter version of myself — which isn't easy when you don't know how to use the tools. When I finally made it onto Money Island to mingle, a stranger approached me and said, "Hello there, Devon." I froze. Then I tried to run. I was desperately searching for the teleport tool when my sister walked into the room, peered over my shoulder at the computer screen and said, "Why'd you make your avatar ugly?" I logged off.
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ERic reinertal world. Some 13 million people have visited Second Life at least once, with about 450,000 residents online in a given week. Even more popular is the online g
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Laura CrouthamelI found this interesting article when I was researching Second Life. I think it is a well written article, and gave me a slightly different view on the whole thing.
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21 Mar 12
Haley DeiserResearch was done to see how much Second Life affects real life. But where does the line between real and fantasy begin and end?
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I spent half an hour trying to make my avatar, or online character, look like a hotter version of myself
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"Why'd you make your avatar ugly?" I logged off.
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researchers assessed how an avatar's attractiveness affected human behavior, both online and off.
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18 Dec 11
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Jesse Fox randomly assigned avatars to 75 volunteers and divided them into three groups: one group watched their look-alike avatars run on treadmills for about five and a half minutes; another group saw their virtual counterparts lounge around; and a third watched avatars who did not look like them, but were of the same age and sex, run on treadmills. A day later, Fox found that participants who watched avatars of their own likeness exercising had themselves exercised an hour more in the intervening 24-hour period than people in the other two groups.
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Shayna PalinkasHow SL affects RL
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12 Jul 11
Ejuanda FieldsThis article talks about how the virtual world could initially effect the real world that we live in
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Virtual behavior may even affect real-world health. Stanford graduate student Jesse Fox randomly assigned avatars to 75 volunteers and divided them into three groups: one group watched their look-alike avatars run on treadmills for about five and a half minutes; another group saw their virtual counterparts lounge around; and a third watched avatars who did not look like them, but were of the same age and sex, run on treadmills. A day later, Fox found that participants who watched avatars of their own likeness exercising had themselves exercised an hour more in the intervening 24-hour period than people in the other two groups. (It's worth noting that the volunteers were all Stanford undergraduates, who were likely more active and fitter to start than the average adult.) "What I'm hoping to find out by picking apart these mechanisms is what motivates people and why this works," says Fox. "If you are energized by seeing yourself run, maybe you can put an avatar on the bottom of your computer screen for five minutes and it would persuade you to go to the gym."
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what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world.
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this applies in the virtual world too.
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the qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world
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Overall, subjects using good-looking avatars tended to display more confidence, friendliness and extroversion, just as in the real world:
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People who had used attractive avatars seemed to hang on to some of the self-assurance that came from being handsome,
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people who had inhabited tall avatars bargained more aggressively,
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Virtual behavior may even affect real-world health.
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participants who watched avatars of their own likeness exercising had themselves exercised
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what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world.
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"When we cloak ourselves in avatars, it subtly alters the manner in which we behave," says Bailenson. "It's about self-perception and self-confidence."
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Some 13 million people have visited Second Life at least once, with about 450,000 residents online in a given week
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which has 10 million active subscribers who pay to participate. People spend on average about 20 hours a week in alternate worlds like these,
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Virtual behavior may even affect real-world health.
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Mally LittleBootsResearchers at Stanford University are finding that the qualities you inhabit online may sneak into your real world
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Parker SurbrookResearchers at Stanford University are finding that the qualities you inhabit online may sneak into your real world
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Michelle Battencommentary on the culture affects of Second Life
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John MahaffieImpacts on physical world/society from virtual world
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What's more, Bailenson's research suggests that the qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world, often without your awareness. Bailenson has found that even 90 seconds spent chatting it up with avatars is enough to elicit behavioral changes offline — at least in the short term. "When we cloak ourselves in avatars, it subtly alters the manner in which we behave," says Bailenson. "It's about self-perception and self-confidence." But researchers are still trying to figure out the psychological mechanisms at work, and which way the effect flows: "Do you consciously wear your power suit to feel confident, or is it that you're in this suit and you're feeling up, but you're unaware of the reason?" says Bailenson.
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14 May 08
Kawika Holbrook"The qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world, often without your awareness."
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