@inproceedings{18e35989df774e03a1b4ca67d74aa816,
title = "Do men heal more when in drag? Conflicting identity cues between user and avatar",
abstract = "Studies in the Proteus Effect have shown that users conform to stereotypes associated with their avatar's appearance. In this study, we used longitudinal behavioral data from 1, 040 users in a virtual world to examine the behavioral outcome of conflicting gender cues between user and avatar. We found that virtual gender had a significant effect on in-game behaviors for both healing and player-vs-player activity.",
keywords = "Avatar, Gender, Identity, Proteus effect, Stereotypes",
author = "Nick Yee and Nicolas Ducheneaut and Mike Yao and Les Nelson",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1145/1978942.1979054",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450302289",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "773--776",
booktitle = "CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts",
address = "United States",
}