Physiological reactivity in response to a fear-induced virtual reality experience: Associations with psychopathic traits
2019 — VR fear elicitation and psychopathic traits
Finding
Psychopathy dimensions related differently to autonomic and subjective fear responses during an interactive VR horror condition.
Why it matters
VR enters the corpus as a controlled environment for eliciting and measuring emotional/physiological response.
Inference boundary
This study is not evidence that VR is itself an effective treatment for psychopathy, aggression, or emotional disorder.