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SUBMITTER: Jansen PCP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7059903 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jansen Patty C P PCP Snijders Chris C P CCP Willemsen Martijn C MC
PloS one 20200306 3
A potentially effective way to influence people's fire prevention behavior is letting them experience a fire in an immersive virtual environment (IVE). We analyze the effects of experiencing a fire in an IVE (versus an information sheet) on psychological determinants of behavior-knowledge, vulnerability, severity, self-efficacy, and locus of control-based mainly on arguments from Protection Motivation Theory and the Health Belief Model. Crucial in our setup is that we also relate these determina ...[more]