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Exodus to virtual worlds: the role of person-environment fit and place attachment

2021/43/B/HS6/03357

Keywords:

virtual worlds. place attachment person-environment fit selective migrations metaverse cyberpsychology environmental psychology

Descriptors:

  • HS6_002:
  • HS6_001:

Panel:

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

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Psychologii

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Tomasz Sebastian Oleksy 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 22 - announced on 2021-09-15

Amount awarded: 946 558 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2022-07-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2027-07-14

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  1. Attachment to real-world places and willingness to migrate to metaverse virtual worlds
    Authors:
    Tomasz Oleksy, Anna Wnuk, Izabela Lassota
    Academic press:
    Journal of Environmental Psychology (rok: 2023, tom: 92, strony: nd), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102161 - link to the publication
  2. Are virtual places perceived as real? Belief in equivalence of virtual and physical spaces and its role in shaping willingness to migrate to virtual worlds
    Authors:
    Tomasz Oleksy, Izabela Lassota
    Academic press:
    Technology in Society (rok: 2025, tom: Volume 82, strony: 102943), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102943 - link to the publication
  3. Virtual changes in real places: Understanding the role of place attachment in augmented reality adoption
    Authors:
    Tomasz Oleksy, Izabela Lassota, Anna Wnuk, Radosław Wcześniak
    Academic press:
    Journal of Environmental Psychology (rok: 2024, tom: 98, strony: nd), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102386 - link to the publication
  4. How do attachments to people and places affect the relationship between the use of virtual places and mental health?
    Authors:
    Izabela Lassota, Tomasz Oleksy, Anna Wnuk, Małgorzata Gambin
    Academic press:
    Current Psychology (rok: 2025, tom: Volume 44, strony: pages 10647–10657), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s12144-025-07893-x - link to the publication
  5. Migration to the metaverse and its predictors: Attachment to virtual places and metaverse-related threat
    Authors:
    Tomasz Oleksy, Anna Wnuk, Małgorzata Piskorska
    Academic press:
    Computers in Human Behavior (rok: 2023, tom: 141, strony: nd), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.chb.2022.107642 - link to the publication
  6. Place attachment(s) and addiction to virtual places: A longitudinal analysis
    Authors:
    Izabela Lassota, Tomasz Oleksy, Małgorzata Gambin, Anna Wnuk
    Academic press:
    Journal of Environmental Psychology (rok: 2025, tom: Volume 106, strony: 102726), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102726 - link to the publication