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The mechanism of the Midas touch effect in men. Study on the significance of social status and homophobia, with the use of immersive virtual reality and psychophysiological measurement.

2014/15/N/HS6/04135

Keywords:

interpersonal touch social status homophobia virtual reality

Descriptors:

  • HS6_2: Social, political, environmental and intercultural psychology
  • HS6_1: General psychology (cognitive processes, emotions, motivations, personality, individual differences), experimental psychology, psycholinguistics

Panel:

HS6 - Human nature and human society: psychology, pedagogy/education studies, sociology

Host institution :

Instytut Psychologii PAN

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Justyna Świdrak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: PRELUDIUM 8 - announced on 2014-09-15

Amount awarded: 95 200 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2015-09-14

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-04-13

Project duration:: 31 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Laptop (4 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (2)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  1. The joint influence of social status and personal attitudes in a contact and open versus a noncontact and homophobic culture on the virtual Midas touch
    Authors:
    Justyna Świdrak, Grzegorz Pochwatko, Xavi Navarro, Laura Osęka, Dariusz Doliński
    Academic press:
    Virtual Reality (rok: 2020, tom: 74, strony: 45306), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s10055-019-00423-8 - link to the publication
  2. Does an agent's touch matter? Gender, Social Status, Heart Rate, and Compliance in the Midas touch effect
    Authors:
    Justyna Swidrak Grzegorz Pochwartko
    Academic press:
    Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces , Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Submitted
  1. Being touched by a virtual human. Relationships between heart rate, gender, social status, and compliance.
    Authors:
    Justyna Świdrak, Grzegorz Pochwatko
    Conference:
    Intelligent Virtual Agents (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Association for Computing Machinery
    Data:
    konferencja 2-5 lipca
    Status:
    Published