Experimental Psychology Unit, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Sci Rep. 2024 Jan 2;14(1):33. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50515-4.
In studies of investigative interviewing, it is not well understood how participant experience of mock-crime activities might affect participants' desire to perform (well) in subsequent interviews. In this study, we utilized two immersive virtual reality mock-crimes to examine if participants' intrinsic motivation (i.e., competence, autonomy, relatedness) while committing the virtual mock-crime affects their desire to perform well in interviews. We also examined if the self-reported feeling of presence during the virtual reality mock-crime is associated with participants' intrinsic motivation. We found significant positive associations between presence and all intrinsic motivation variables in both truth and lie conditions. We also found that competence and relatedness significantly predicted the self-reported effort to perform well in interviews. We discuss these results in the context of prior literature and provide recommendations for researchers on the design of mock-crime experiences.
在调查性访谈的研究中，参与者对模拟犯罪活动的体验如何影响他们在后续访谈中的表现（意愿），这一点还不是很清楚。在这项研究中，我们利用两种沉浸式虚拟现实模拟犯罪来检验参与者在实施虚拟模拟犯罪时的内在动机（即能力、自主性、关联性）是否会影响他们在访谈中的表现意愿。我们还检验了在虚拟现实模拟犯罪期间的自我报告存在感是否与参与者的内在动机有关。我们发现，在真实和虚假条件下，存在感与所有内在动机变量之间都存在显著的正相关关系。我们还发现，能力和关联性显著预测了自我报告的在访谈中表现良好的努力程度。我们在之前文献的背景下讨论了这些结果，并为模拟犯罪体验的设计提供了研究人员的建议。
