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Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality: Taking an Environmental vs Health Communication Perspective on Enhancing Response Efficacy Beliefs

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION-A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CULTURE (2022)

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ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION-A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CULTURE

Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 1-22

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2021.1943700

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Virtual reality; experiment; behavior change; environment; health

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Communication Environmental Studies

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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research grant [Veni.201S.075, 451-15-028]
ASCoR (Amsterdam School of Communication Research) grant

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Personal response efficacy beliefs play a crucial role in environmental behavior change, and displaying impact messages in a VR-supermarket has been found effective in stimulating these beliefs and promoting pro-environmental food choices. The study also showed that the effects of impact messages could last up to two weeks, regardless of appeal type or message modality.

Personal response efficacy beliefs are vital in instigating, maintaining, and catalyzing environmental behavior change. In this experimental study (N = 249), we investigated whether such efficacy beliefs could be stimulated using Virtual Reality. In a VR-supermarket, participants would see interactive pop-ups displaying impact messages when they picked up products, these are messages that display the (environmental or health) impact of a product. Our results show that these impact messages are effective in stimulating personal response efficacy beliefs and subsequently pro-environmental food choices. The heightened personal response efficacy beliefs positively affected maintaining and catalyzing behavior change (i.e. positive spill-over) up to two weeks after the VR-experience. The effectiveness of the impact messages did not depend on appeal type (health vs environmental appeal) or modality (text + visual vs text only) of the message. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Summary: This study used a complexity science approach to evaluate the effectiveness of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for promoting healthy behaviors. The results showed a medium effect of JITAIs on objective behavior change, and design principles did not significantly moderate their effects.

DIGITAL HEALTH (2023)

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Article Computer Science, Software Engineering

Identifying emotions toward an overweight avatar in Virtual Reality: The moderating effects of visuotactile stimulation and drive for thinness

Nadine Elisa van der Waal, Julie A. W. van Bokhorst, Laura Nynke van der Laan

Summary: This study explores the negative affective responses and body-size perception changes when embodying an overweight virtual avatar among healthy weight participants. The findings suggest that owning an overweight virtual body leads to more negative affect, but this effect is not influenced by visuotactile stimulation or the drive for thinness.

FRONTIERS IN VIRTUAL REALITY (2022)

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