When your Second Life comes knocking: Effects of personality on changes to real life from virtual world experiences

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Highlights:

• Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were the strongest predictors of VW experiences.

• Emotional involvement was the single strongest predictor of changes to real life.

• Conscientiousness predicted low changes to real life.

• Agreeableness and Intellect predicted emotional involvement with the virtual world.

• Extraversion predicted similarity between users and avatars.

摘要

•Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were the strongest predictors of VW experiences.•Emotional involvement was the single strongest predictor of changes to real life.•Conscientiousness predicted low changes to real life.•Agreeableness and Intellect predicted emotional involvement with the virtual world.•Extraversion predicted similarity between users and avatars.

论文关键词:Avatar,Big Five,Personality,Trait activation,Virtual world,Virtual environment

论文评审过程:Available online 18 July 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.06.025