Sexual harassment (SH) against women is one of the most worldwide problems. To mitigate its incidence, various programs, including virtual reality (VR), have been developed for both prevention and treatment. 360-degree video has emerged as a subfield of VR capable of inducing the body swap illusion and facilitating perspective-taking (PT), as well as eliciting related emotions. The present study represents a progression from a previously published work, featuring a within-subjects design approach that showed the superiority of the immersive video to elicit empathy compared to a control condition. The aim is to investigate and validate the feasibility of using 360-degree video to foster empathy, PT, and a sense of oneness, potentially reducing violent attitudes toward a female victim of SH compared with a traditional PT task (control condition) in a between-subjects design. Forty Mexican men were randomly assigned to one of the conditions. Results confirmed the feasibility of the 360-degree video in significantly enhancing PT and a sense of oneness compared with the control condition. However, no significant changes were observed for the variables of empathy and violent attitude. Moreover, the findings supported the potential of the 360-degree video in eliciting a sense of ownership and presence with the virtual character and the immersive environment, with ownership showing a positive correlation with empathy and PT. Lastly, participant body awareness was found to be a positive predictor of ownership. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

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沉浸感同理心：360 度虚拟现实对培养性骚扰受害者形象的换位思考和一体感的影响。


针对女性的性骚扰 （SH） 是世界性最严重的问题之一。为了减少其发病率，已经开发了各种程序，包括虚拟现实 （VR），用于预防和治疗。360 度视频已成为 VR 的一个子领域，能够诱导身体交换错觉并促进透视 （PT），以及引发相关情绪。本研究代表了以前发表的工作的进展，其特点是受试者内设计方法，该方法显示了与控制条件相比，沉浸式视频在引发同理心方面的优势。目的是调查和验证使用 360 度视频培养同理心、PT 和一体感的可行性，与传统的 PT 任务（控制条件）相比，在受试者间设计中，可能会减少对 SH 女性受害者的暴力态度。40 名墨西哥男性被随机分配到其中一种情况。结果证实了与对照条件相比，360 度视频在显着增强 PT 和一体感方面的可行性。然而，未观察到同理心和暴力态度变量的显着变化。此外，研究结果支持 360 度视频在激发虚拟角色和沉浸式环境的所有权感和存在感方面的潜力，所有权与同理心和 PT 呈正相关。最后，发现参与者的身体意识是所有权的积极预测因子。讨论了限制和未来方向。