A clinical psychologist who used virtual reality to test mechanisms maintaining persecutory delusions. A randomized experiment compared entering simulated social situations while retaining safety behaviors with entering them while dropping those behaviors. Measuring changes in conviction connects the manipulation to a proposed mechanism, beyond simply exposing participants to a social setting.[ref]
Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction by Daniel Freeman and others. 2016, 30-participant experimental study and real-world assessment
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. University of Oxford profile portrait. Source.- Comparison of a theoretically driven cognitive therapy (the Feeling Safe Programme) with befriending for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions: a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial by Daniel Freeman and others
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- Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction by Daniel Freeman and others
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