Virtual Self-Modeling: The Effects of Vicarious Reinforcement and Identification on Exercise Behaviors

By Jesse Fox, Jeremy N. Bailenson. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Avatars Versus Agents: A Meta-Analysis Quantifying the Effect of Agency on Social Influence (2015, methodology): “For example, photorealistic virtual selves (i.e., virtual doppelgängers) inﬂu-enced exercise behaviors when they were controlled by a computer as well as when they were controlled by a human (Fox & Bailenson, 2009).”
Virtually True: Children's Acquisition of False Memories in Virtual Reality (2009, background): “In the following sections, we will present this work and frame it as it relates to media richness.”
Studying technology-based strategies for enhancing motivation in mathematics (2014, background): “For example, Fox and Bailenson (2009) reported that, when individuals watched a virtual representation of themselves experiencing the benefits of exercising, these individuals were significantly more likely to engage in exercise after the intervention was done.”
Drumming in Immersive Virtual Reality: The Body Shapes the Way We Play (2013, background): “A closely related concept is that of ‘virtual doppelgangers’, where a participant sees an alternate selfrepresentation carrying out activities [36-39], designed to induce attitudinal changes in the participant.”
Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality (2016, background): “Fox and Bailenson (2009) carried out a study where participants using a head-tracked HMD-based VR saw a virtual character from 3PP (i.e., across the room and looking toward them) with a face that was based on a photograph of their own face and that therefore had some likeness to themselves.”
Virtual Superheroes: Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior (2013, background): “A five-item scale to measure environmental presence, loosely adapted from Bailenson, Swinth, Hoyt, Persky, Dimoy, and Blascovich [17]; for the exact wording of the questions, see Text B in File S1.”
Avatar characteristics induce users’ behavioral conformity with small-to-medium effect sizes: a meta-analysis of the proteus effect (2019, background): “The results of their experiments (Yee & Bailenson, 2009) provided evidence for the propositions, showing that virtual embodiment caused larger behavioral changes compared to observing an external party.”
INCREASING SAVING BEHAVIOR THROUGH AGE-PROGRESSED RENDERINGS OF THE FUTURE SELF (2011, unknown): “For example, participants shown virtual versions of themselves losing weight with exercise and gaining weight with inactivity were more likely than controls to exercise afterward (Fox and Bailenson 2009).”
Avatars and computer-mediated communication: a review of the definitions, uses, and effects of digital representations (2018, background): “…with additional limbs (Won, Bailenson, Lee, & Lanier, 2015), allow every receiver to see consistent eye contact from the same source (Bailenson, Beall, Loomis, Blascovich, & Turk, 2005), or make a message source look exactly like the receiver (Bailenson & Segovia, 2010; Fox & Bailenson, 2009a).”