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Virtual reality for the rehabilitation and prevention of intimate partner violence - From brain to behavior: A narrative review

Publicated to:Frontiers In Psychology. 13 788608- - 2023-04-27 13(), DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.788608

Authors: Johnston, Tania; Seinfeld, Sofia; Gonzalez-Liencres, Cristina; Barnes, Nicolas; Slater, Mel; Sanchez-Vives, Maria V

Affiliations

Generalitat Catalunya, Dept Justicia, Barcelona, Spain - Author
ICREA, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Inst Invest Biomed August Pi & Sunyer IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Max Planck Sch Cognit, Leipzig, Germany - Author
Univ Barcelona, Dept Clin Psychol & Psychobiol, Event Lab, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Barcelona, Inst Neurosci, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Catalunya Barcelona Tech, Image Proc & Multimedia Technol Ctr, Terrassa, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Rehabilitation and prevention strategies to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) have limited effectiveness in terms of improving key risk factors and reducing occurrence. Accumulated experimental evidence demonstrates that virtual embodiment, which results in the illusion of owning a virtual body, has a large impact on people's emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses. This narrative review discusses work that has investigated how embodied perspective - taking in virtual reality has been used as a tool to reduce bias, to enhance recognition of the emotional state of another, and to reduce violent behaviors, in particular in the realm of IPV. Some of the potential neurological mechanisms behind these affective and behavioral changes are also discussed. The process of rehabilitation and prevention is complex and not always effective, but the integration of neuroscience-inspired and validated state-of-the-art technology into the rehabilitation process can make a positive contribution.

Keywords

AttitudesDomestic violence,self-representation,bystander behavior,program,empathy,ownership,recognition,batterers,exposure,typologEmbodimentEmpathyIntimate partner violenceIntimate partner violence,virtual reality,prevention,rehabilitation,perpetrators,empathy,attitudes,embodimenPerpetratorsPreventionRehabilitationVirtual reality

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Frontiers In Psychology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 56/219, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Psychology, Multidisciplinary. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Psychology (Miscellaneous).

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.95. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 2.22 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-01, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 8

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-01:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 79.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 79 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.6.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Johnston, Tania) and Last Author (Sanchez Vives, Maria V.).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Sanchez Vives, Maria V..