= Daniel Freeman
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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.<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]{ref}
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