Social priming influences the perception of a virtual audience: Exploratory study

Virtual reality is an effective therapeutic tool in many psychiatric disorders. However, some patients are not very sensitive to these new treatments due to a difficulty in considering these virtual environments as plausible. The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of conceptual priming on the perception of virtual environments in healthy participants. We primed participants with a pro-social, non-social or anti-social priming. The...