= Virtual-reality delusion experiment
Freeman and colleagues compared graded virtual social <Exposure therapy>[exposure] with threat testing that included <safety behavior> reduction, assessing <belief> conviction and later real-world <distress>. The brief small-sample experiment probes a combined causal manipulation rather than establishing durable effects of every component.<Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction by Daniel Freeman and others>[British Journal of Psychiatry 209, 62–67; 30 participants, graded social environments, safety reduction versus exposure and real-world assessment]{ref}
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