{"id":378530,"date":"2010-03-02T02:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2010-03-02T02:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T07:32:21","slug":"your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/378530","title":{"rendered":"Your avatar affects your online behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/frame.html?main=\/news\/news_single.html?id%3D11871\" >Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a> &#8212; This research is not surprising in the least. If your avatar looks like you it stands to reason you&#8217;d act something akin to how you normally would. If your avatar has a dramatically different look than you, or is a different gender, species or even an alien life form it also stands to reason you&#8217;d be more likely to\u00a0role-play the actions you think that character would\u00a0exhibit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Can avatars change the way we think and act?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Physorg.com, Feb. 25, 2010<\/p>\n<p>You are more likely to imitate the behavior of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Avatar')\">avatar<\/a> in real\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Life')\">life<\/a> if it looks like you, Jesse Fox, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Research')\">research<\/a>er at the Stanford Virtual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Human')\">Human<\/a> Interaction Lab, found in a study that used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Digital')\">digital<\/a> photographs of participants to create personalized\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/loadBrain('Avatar')\">avatar<\/a> bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news186342108.html\" >Read Original Article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the YouTube clip found at the link:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/02\/your-avatar-affects-your-online-behavior\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/nuOphOwjIDM\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6898\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6898&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via KurzweilAI.net &#8212; This research is not surprising in the least. 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