http://larpwiki.labcats.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=ImmersionImmersion - Revision history2026-05-06T14:21:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.2http://larpwiki.labcats.org/index.php?title=Immersion&diff=2715&oldid=prevIdiotSavant: See also2016-02-05T04:52:57Z<p>See also</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lauri Lukka suggests that (character) immersion is a dissociative state, in which the player uses empathy and theory of mind to imagine the game setting through the eyes of the character.<ref>Lauri Lukka, "The Psychology of Immersion: Individual Differences and Psychological Phenomena Relating to Immersion". In Jon Back (ed), ''The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp'', Knutpunkt 2014, p 85-86.</ref> This state can be strengthened by a supportive physical setting (e.g. the [[360 degree illusion]]), and in the right circumstances, this state can become self-reinforcing for limited periods of time. In less supportive physical settings, immersion requires self-suggestion.<ref>Lukka (2014), p. 87.</ref> Mike Pohjola stresses this self-suggestion element; immersion is the player "pretend[ing] to believe she is the character".<ref>Mike Pohjola, "Autonomous Identities: Immersion as a Tool for Exploring, Empowering and Emancipating Identities". In Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros (eds), ''Beyond Role and Play'', Solmukohta 2004, p. 84.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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