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Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning
Interpersonal skills require mastering a wide range of competencies such as communication and adaptation to different situations. Effective training includes the use of videos in which role models perform the desired behaviours such that trainees can learn through behavioural mimicry. However, new t...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875421/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245960 |
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author | Kleinlogel, Emmanuelle P. Curdy, Marion Rodrigues, João Sandi, Carmen Schmid Mast, Marianne |
author_facet | Kleinlogel, Emmanuelle P. Curdy, Marion Rodrigues, João Sandi, Carmen Schmid Mast, Marianne |
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description | Interpersonal skills require mastering a wide range of competencies such as communication and adaptation to different situations. Effective training includes the use of videos in which role models perform the desired behaviours such that trainees can learn through behavioural mimicry. However, new technologies allow new ways of designing training. In the present study, given that virtual reality is emerging as a valuable training setting, we compare two different demonstration conditions within virtual reality by investigating the extent to which the use of doppelgangers as role models can boost trainees’ interpersonal skills development as compared to a role model that does not resemble the trainees. We also assess trainees’ level of self-efficacy and gender as potential moderators in this relationship. Participants delivered a speech in front of a virtual audience twice. Before delivering their second speech, they watched a role model giving a speech in front of the same audience. The role model was either their doppelganger or an avatar of the same gender depending on the condition they were randomly assigned to. Results showed that the doppelganger-based training was the most beneficial for male trainees low in self-efficacy. These findings have important implications for training design, suggesting that doppelganger-based training might be effective only for a specific subset of trainees. |
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spelling | pubmed-78754212021-02-19 Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning Kleinlogel, Emmanuelle P. Curdy, Marion Rodrigues, João Sandi, Carmen Schmid Mast, Marianne PLoS One Research Article Interpersonal skills require mastering a wide range of competencies such as communication and adaptation to different situations. Effective training includes the use of videos in which role models perform the desired behaviours such that trainees can learn through behavioural mimicry. However, new technologies allow new ways of designing training. In the present study, given that virtual reality is emerging as a valuable training setting, we compare two different demonstration conditions within virtual reality by investigating the extent to which the use of doppelgangers as role models can boost trainees’ interpersonal skills development as compared to a role model that does not resemble the trainees. We also assess trainees’ level of self-efficacy and gender as potential moderators in this relationship. Participants delivered a speech in front of a virtual audience twice. Before delivering their second speech, they watched a role model giving a speech in front of the same audience. The role model was either their doppelganger or an avatar of the same gender depending on the condition they were randomly assigned to. Results showed that the doppelganger-based training was the most beneficial for male trainees low in self-efficacy. These findings have important implications for training design, suggesting that doppelganger-based training might be effective only for a specific subset of trainees. Public Library of Science 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7875421/ /pubmed/33566838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245960 Text en © 2021 Kleinlogel et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kleinlogel, Emmanuelle P. Curdy, Marion Rodrigues, João Sandi, Carmen Schmid Mast, Marianne Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title | Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title_full | Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title_fullStr | Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title_full_unstemmed | Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title_short | Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
title_sort | doppelganger-based training: imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875421/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245960 |
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