Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Virtual Superpowers Could Make You Do Good In Real Life, Study Finds

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Virtual Superpowers Could Make You Do Good In Real Life, Study Finds
Feb 7th 2013, 04:44

By Sophie Bushwick
(Click here for the original article and podcast)

You're a bird! You're a plane! You're a superhero! Sort of. Because a study finds that experiencing superpowers in a virtual environment can turn you into a do-gooder in real life. The work is in the journal PloS ONE. [Robin S. Rosenberg, Shawnee L. Baughman and Jeremy N. Bailenson, Virtual Superheroes: Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior]


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