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Do men heal more when in drag?: conflicting identity cues between user and avatar

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Nick Yee,

Nicolas Ducheneaut,

Mike Yao,

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 773 - 776

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979054

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

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Studies in the Proteus Effect have shown that users conform to stereotypes associated with their avatar's appearance. In this study, we used longitudinal behavioral data from 1,040 users in a virtual world to examine the behavioral outcome of conflicting gender cues between user and avatar. We found that virtual gender had a significant effect on in-game behaviors for both healing and player-vs-player activity.

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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ISBN:9781450302289

DOI:10.1145/1978942

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PARC
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IBM Research

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