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Virtual reality could help men understand the impacts of catcalling

On the left is a male participant from the trial experiencing virtual reality, which made him embody a female avatar, seen on the right

An experiment on catcalling involved men embodying a female avatar who is getting ready for a party

Chiara Lucifora and Aldo Gangemi et al. 2025

Men who embodied female avatars via virtual reality didn’t respond well to being catcalled, raising hopes that this approach could make perpetrators more aware of the effects of such harassment.

Chiara Lucifora at the University of Bologna in Italy and her colleagues wanted to know how men would react to experiencing catcalling, so they had 36 men, average age 23, embody a female avatar getting ready to go to a party, before entering an…

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