Introduction
Different digital reality forms virtual, augmented and mixed as argued
and unrivalled by Rosenberg (1992) and Milgram & Kishino (1994) but now
these are commonly known. Personality relationship with these digital
situations have been reflected in multiples ways (Kim, Bruder, Maloney
& Welch2016: Hanna, & Richards 2016a: Astrid, Krämer&Gratch2010:
Buisine& Martin2010:Karsvall2002). The co-presence experiences with
human surrogates (Kim& Welch 2015) have the capacity to influence
human‘trust’, ‘social presence’ (Robb &Lok (2014), motivation and
emotions (Ahrndt, Fähndrich, Lützenberger&Albayrak2015) further
understanding of these human experiences could be more informing?
Virtual experiences or ‘presence’ are different than that of real
experiences (Heeter 1992) because these takes place in ‘Proteus Effect
Virtual environments’ (Yee &Bailenson 2007) that are filled with ‘place
illusions’ and ‘plausibility illusions” (Slater 2009b) Virtual
environment is related with ‘body ownership’ and ‘representation’
(Slater, Spanlang, Sanchez-Vives&Blanke 2010 d) close to human
‘propensity’ Sanchez-Vives and Slater (2005) in (Slater 2007a)
therefore, a few researchers have questioned the use of questionnaires
for these complex situations (Slater 2004: Usoh, Catena, Arman& Slater
2000) as researchers have described with reference to ‘presence’
(Slater, Lotto, Arnold & Sánchez-Vives 2009 c).
Self-deception is a known human capacity that facilitates interpersonal
deception (Von Hippel, & Trivers2011:Troisi2011), it is different from
“inaccurate representation”(Pinker2011)and is an ‘active’ human
‘strategy’ (Preti&Miotto2011) for ‘social gains’(Fridland2011).
Self-harm is a psychological construct and in a study it was reported
that 15% youth was subject to this
situation(Laye-Gindhu&Schonert-Reichl 2005).Sufficient records about
the construct have been reported in psychological
literature(McAllister2003) but a few factors controlling this behavior
are yet not clear (Chapman, Gratz& Brown 2006). However, some measures
are available for its measurement (Patterson, Whittington&Bogg2007).
Human experiences play important role to shape personality (Birch &
Fisher1996), a few researchers have evolved equations to define the
construct and its role (Taylor & Todd 1995). The experiences are not
only related with human behaviors but are known for its contributory
role in the development of human nervous system and brain (Gottlieb
1976:Dawson, Ashman& Carver2000)