Table 1.
Post Experience Questionnaire.
| Variable name | Question |
|---|---|
| (A) PLACE ILLUSION | |
| There | Please rate your sense of being in the boat and on the beach, on the following scale from 1 to 7, where 7 represents your normal experience of being in a place. |
| Real | To what extent were there times during the experience when the boat and on the beach was the reality for you? |
| Visited | When you think back about your experience, do you think of the boat and beach more as images that you saw, or more as somewhere that you visited? |
| lab* | During the time of the experience, which was strongest on the whole, your sense of being in the boat and beach, or of being in the real world of the laboratory? |
| Overwhelm | During the time of the experience, did you often think to yourself that you were just sitting in a laboratory or did the experience overwhelm you? |
| (B) PLAUSIBILITY OF THE SITUATION | |
| Behavereal | How much did you behave within the scene as if the situation were real? |
| Emotionreal | How much was your emotional response the same as if it had been real? |
| Thoughtsreal | How much were the thoughts you had within the experience the same as if it had been a real situation? |
| Behaveasifreal | How much were you thinking things like “I know this isn't real” but then surprisingly finding yourself behaving as if it was real? |
| Physicalreal | To what extent were your physical responses within the experience (e.g., heart rate, blushing, sweating, etc.) the same as if it had been a real situation? |
| Experiencereal | Overall how much did you treat the experience as if it were real? |
| (C) PLAUSIBILITY OF THE VIRTUAL PEOPLE | |
| Peoplereal | How much did you behave as if the virtual people were real? |
| Emotionpeople | How much was your emotional response to the virtual people as if they were real? |
| Thoughtspeople | How much were your thoughts in relation to the virtual people as if they were real? |
| Physicalpeople | How much did you have physical responses (such as change in heart rate, blushing, sweating, etc.) to the virtual people as if they were real? |
| Behavingasifpeople | How much were you thinking things like “I know these people are not real” but then surprisingly finding yourself behaving as if they were? |
| (D) BODY OWNERSHIP AND AGENCY | |
| Mybody | During the experience I felt that the body I saw when looking down toward myself was my own body (even though it didn't look like me). |
| Twobodies* | During the experience I felt as though I had two bodies. |
| Agency | During the experience I felt that the movements of the virtual body were my movements. |
| Otherbody* | During the experience I felt that the virtual body belonged to someone else. |
| (E) INTEREST IN CURRENT AFFAIRS | |
| Affairs | How interested are you in news and current affairs? |
Each question was scored on a 1-7 Likert Scale, where 1 indicates least agreement and 7 most agreement with the proposition indicated by the question.
*
indicates reverse interpretation, where higher values indicate less agreement with the item of measurement such as “Place Illusion.”