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The Avatar Will See You Now: Support from a Virtual Human Provides Socio-Emotional Benefits

2022-02-04

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<p>When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans are readily available and help sharers overcome socio-evaluative threats, thereby increasing willingness to disclose. Here, we examined whether talking to a virtual human elicits socio-emotional benefits, and whether this is moderated...

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Literature Corpus work: eba01ea4-6b0b-5ec5-8fed-7b046c5443b2
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5u6hz

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