通过化身肌肉和性别因素,蛋白质对人类疼痛感知的影响
Youchan Yim1, Zongheng Xia1, Yuki Kubota1
1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan.
Scientific reports
|May 23, 2024
概括
虚拟现实化身可以减少疼痛感知. 使用肌肉化的人形显著降低了疼痛评分,影响因性别和人形一致性而异.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 虚拟现实研究 虚拟现实研究
- 疼痛感知研究 疼痛感知研究
背景情况:
- 蛋白质效应描述了虚拟现实中的化身如何影响用户的行为和态度.
- 之前的研究表明,蛋白质效应可以提高身体表现.
- 蛋白质效应调节主观体验的潜力,如疼痛感知,仍然在很大程度上未被探索.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究使用虚拟现实化身的蛋白质效应的缓解疼痛效应.
- 检查化身特征 (如肌肉,性别一致性) 如何影响疼痛感知.
- 探索性别,疼痛刻板印象,体现和Proteus对疼痛的影响之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 与成年参与者 (N=20,N=44) 进行了两项实验,使用头戴显示器和热疼痛刺激.
- 参与者在使用肌肉化身与正常化身的条件下经历了急性疼痛.
- 使用疼痛评估尺度 (PAS) 评估疼痛,并收集有关性别相关疼痛刻板印象 (GREP) 和实施方式的数据.
主要成果:
- 参与者报告说,使用肌肉化身与正常化身相比,疼痛得分显著减少15.982% .
- 与化身的性别一致性显著降低了疼痛评分.
- 肌肉化身对男性尤为有效;女性报告说,无论化身类型如何,疼痛都减少了.
结论:
- 蛋白质效应可以有效地缓解人类在虚拟环境中的疼痛感知.
- 化身特征,特别是肌肉和性别一致性,在疼痛调节中起着重要作用.
- 研究结果表明,与性别相关的疼痛刻板印象,体现和蛋白质效应在改变疼痛感知方面的有效性之间存在联系.
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