Individual differences and personality correlates of navigational performance in the virtual route learning task

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Highlights:

• Psychoticism is positively correlated with the length of path taken in virtual environments (VEs).

• Increased wayfinding anxiety negatively affects the efficiency of navigation in VEs.

• Stronger immersive tendencies allow less erratic wayfinding in VEs.

• Application of the survey strategy facilitates navigation in VEs even despite a lack of any explicit global cues.

• Computer experience is an important factor affecting performance in wayfinding virtual tasks.

摘要

•Psychoticism is positively correlated with the length of path taken in virtual environments (VEs).•Increased wayfinding anxiety negatively affects the efficiency of navigation in VEs.•Stronger immersive tendencies allow less erratic wayfinding in VEs.•Application of the survey strategy facilitates navigation in VEs even despite a lack of any explicit global cues.•Computer experience is an important factor affecting performance in wayfinding virtual tasks.

论文关键词:Wayfinding,Personality traits,Virtual environments,Psychoticism,Spatial cognition,Anxiety

论文评审过程:Available online 16 January 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.041