{"id":76,"date":"2007-09-30T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2007-09-30T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T09:00:21","slug":"virtual-worlds-are-a-window-on-human-psyche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/virtual-worlds-are-a-window-on-human-psyche\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual worlds are a window on human psyche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As virtual worlds become more ubiquitous and more long lived, user behaviour is offering more insights into human psyche and revealing how virtual reality can fill some emotional needs we might have.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/09\/business\/yourmoney\/09second.html?th&amp;emc=th\">this article<\/a> discusses, the working and spending behaviour of avatars is active by choice rather than necessity &#8211; you don&#8217;t have to work or dress in Second Life to survive, but it may enrich your experience.\u00a0 Second Life residents choose to make money (Linden dollars) and spend it on stuff so that they feel comfortable and successful in the virtual world.\u00a0 They may even devote nearly as much time to creating their virtual reality as living in the real world!\u00a0 Its a great way to be rich without a massive ecological footprint!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As virtual worlds become more ubiquitous and more long lived, user behaviour is offering more insights into human psyche and revealing how virtual reality can fill some emotional needs we might have.\u00a0 As this article discusses, the working and spending behaviour of avatars is active by choice rather than necessity &#8211; you don&#8217;t have to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/virtual-worlds-are-a-window-on-human-psyche\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual worlds are a window on human psyche<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-1e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}