{"id":181288,"date":"2024-01-24T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/using-virtual-reality-to-get-inside-the-criminal-mind"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:28:14","slug":"using-virtual-reality-to-get-inside-the-criminal-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/using-virtual-reality-to-get-inside-the-criminal-mind","title":{"rendered":"Using virtual reality to get inside the criminal mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-virtual-reality-to-get-inside-the-criminal-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychologists from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have used virtual reality (VR) technology in a new study that aims to better understand criminals and how they respond when questioned. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-50515-4\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will often hear police say, to catch a criminal, you have to think like a criminal\u2014well that is effectively what we are trying to do here,\u201d said Dr. Shane Rogers, who led the project alongside ECU Ph.D. candidate Isabella Branson.<\/p>\n<p>The forensic psychology research project involved 101 participants, who role-played committing a burglary in two similar virtual mock\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crime\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crime<\/a> scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have used virtual reality (VR) technology in a new study that aims to better understand criminals and how they respond when questioned. The results are published in the journal Scientific Reports. \u201cYou will often hear police say, to catch a criminal, you have to think like a criminal\u2014well that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}