{"title":"Beyond Immersion: A System-Level Topological Stitching Model for Virtual Reality Place Reconstruction","authors":"Jianqing Ye, Hongchen Zhang, Xuan Huang","doi":"10.1002/acp.70234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70234","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study tests Topological Stitching Theory (TST) as an operational framework explaining how Virtual Reality (VR) reconstructs coherent place representations from fragmented spatial environments. It introduces Digital Placeness as a second-order construct capturing cognitive-affective integration through Spatial Coherence, Affective Anchoring, and Narrative Embodiment. Spatial topology analysis of 3872 heritage sites in Xi'an quantified landscape fragmentation as a baseline constraint. Second, a randomized controlled experiment randomly assigned 612 eligible participants to a topology-driven VR system or an information-equivalent audio-visual control condition; 604 participants completed the study and were included in the final analyses. A 12-item Digital Placeness scale was developed and validated. Structural equation modeling showed that VR significantly enhanced all three dimensions (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Mediation analysis indicates that Digital Placeness functions as a core integration mechanism, substantially explaining the association between VR exposure and downstream behavioral outcomes. EEG evidence supported Affective Anchoring. The findings guide integration-oriented VR design.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Evidence of Repeated Exposure Increasing the Perceived Realism of Real and AI-Generated Faces","authors":"Robin S. S. Kramer","doi":"10.1002/acp.70229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70229","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Processing fluency accounts and recent empirical evidence suggest that repeated exposure to images may increase their perceived realism. Here, focusing exclusively on faces, the present study tested whether repetition increased the likelihood that images were judged as real photographs rather than AI-generated. Participants first rated the perceived realism of a set containing both real photographs and synthetic faces. After completing a filler task, participants again rated the perceived realism of a subset of these images, intermixed with a set of new images. A funnel debriefing confirmed that participants were unaware of the study's predictions. Bayesian multilevel modelling found no evidence that repeated images were perceived as more real. Indeed, for AI-generated faces, repetition led to a small increase in perceived ‘synthetic-ness’. These results suggest that under conditions of minimal demand characteristics, graded responding and a single prior exposure, repeated viewing alone is insufficient to increase perceived realism for face images.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148166941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dela Sawatzki, Vita Ligaya Ponce Dalgaard, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
{"title":"Vicarious Narratives From Colleagues: Exploring Meaning-Making, Themes, and Affective Sequences in Relation to the Psychosocial Work Environment","authors":"Dela Sawatzki, Vita Ligaya Ponce Dalgaard, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen","doi":"10.1002/acp.70214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70214","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Guided by an ecological systems approach, we extend research on intergenerational and vicarious narratives to a vocational setting. We explored meaning-making, themes, and affective sequences in vicarious work narratives and their associations with psychosocial work environment in 125 German secondary school teachers (46% female, mean years of work experience = 17.63). Participants narrated a personal and a colleague's work challenge and completed measures of psychosocial work environment. Both narratives were coded for agency, communion, redemption, and contamination, with mostly non-significant correlations between the two narratives, supporting that vicarious narratives are distinct from personal narratives. Teachers frequently derived specific lessons, lessons in relation to systemic work conditions, and positive identity conclusions from colleagues' narratives, suggesting that vicarious narratives from colleagues serve multiple functions. We found few significant correlations between vicarious work narratives and the psychosocial work environment, and future studies are needed to further probe potential positive outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}