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What is a meaningful life journey for you?
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What are your assets and barriers?
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What is the role of situation and perception in being resilient?
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How do you achieve your potential?
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Practice the real thing when you are strong! Immerse yourself in emotionally difficult situations and test your skills of how to best handle these situations to proactively build resilience.
Try this VR Demo
on your computer!
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Course offered by Raj Bhargava and Geoff Cohen at Stanford University, EDUC 426: Unleashing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self (PSYCH 264). Online curriculum and hands-on activities developed by Raj Bhargava and validated by teaching high school students and working adults.
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Virtual reality experiences developed by researchers from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University. VHIL research has shown that VR is more effective than other media in developing soft skills, such as empathy and self-efficacy (Herrera et al, 2018; Queiroz et al., 2020).
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According to a PWC study, after VR training for soft skills:
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Users felt 275% more confident to act on what they learned — a 40% improvement over classroom and 35% improvement over e-learn.
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3.75x more emotionally connected to the content than classroom learners, and 2.3x more connected than e-learners.
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Source:
- PwC VR Soft Skills Training Efficacy Study, 2020.
- Herrera, F., Bailenson, J., Weisz, E., Ogle, E., & Zaki, J. (2018). Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking. PloS one, 13(10), e0204494.
- Queiroz, A., Fauville, G., Herrera, F, Leme M. I., Bailenson, J. (2020). Immersion and learning: Cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of immersive virtual reality learning experiences. 70th International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
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Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., & Goyer, J. P. (2017). Turning point: Targeted, tailored, and timely psychological intervention. In A. Elliot, C. Dweck, D. Yeager (eds), Handbook of Competence and Motivation (2nd Edition): Theory and Application (pp. 657-686). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Available at https://profiles.stanford.edu/geoffrey-cohen?tab=publications
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Dweck, Carol (2007). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Fotuhi, O., Ehret, P. J., Kocsick, S., & Cohen, G. L. Boosting college prospects among low-income students: Combining self-affirmation and behavioral nudges. Manuscript under review.
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Herrera, F., Bailenson, J.N., Weisz, E., Ogle, E. & Zaki J. (2018). Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204494
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Persky, S., & Lewis, M. A. (2019). Advancing science and practice using immersive virtual reality: what behavioral medicine has to offer. Translational behavioral medicine, 9(6), 1040-1046.
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Slater, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2016). Enhancing our lives with immersive virtual reality. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3, 74.