Psychology
Why creating a perfect Sim can change how you see yourself
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Spending three hours adjusting the cheekbones of a virtual avatar seems harmless until you look in the mirror. Thanks to the Proteus effect, customizing hyper-attractive digital characters routinely causes players to internalize those impossible, pixel-perfect standards. You end up aggressively objectifying your own physical body because it miserably fails to measure up to the flawless Sim you just created.
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