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Embodying compassion: a virtual reality paradigm for overcoming excessive self-criticism
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Virtual reality has been successfully used to study and treat psychological disorders such as phobias and posttraumatic stress disorder but has rarely been applied to clinically-relevant emotions other than fear and anxiety. Self-criticism is a ubiquitous feature of psychopathology and can be treated by increasing levels of self-compassion. We exploited the known effects of identification with a virtual body to arrange for healthy female volunteers high in self-criticism to experience self-co...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0111933
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- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS One More from this journal
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- e111933
- Publication date:
- 2014-11-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-10-02
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1932-6203
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- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © 2014 Falconer et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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