VR Therapy for Spider Phobia

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Issue:

Psychology

 

Written by:

Cora W

 

Date added:

May 4, 2012

 

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University

 

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B

 

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Participants answered questions to assess their level of arachnophobia before and after the therapy. They also walked into a room with a live tarantula housed in a cage and were asked to approach the critter. Research scientist Hunter Hoffman of the university's Human Interface Technology lab and his colleagues found that those students who had three therapy sessions or more were able to come twice as close to a real spider...
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It is thought that since patients don't have to actually face the object of their fear, they may be more likely to seek treatment. At this stage, they're only testing the effectiveness of VR therapy on arachnophobic people. However, if this proves to be a successful way of treating patients who have fear for certain things, VR therapy may become widely used in many other aspects of life as well...
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