Believing Is Seeing: A Proof-of-Concept Semiexperimental Study on Using Mobile Virtual Reality to Boost the Effects of Interpretation Bias Modification for Anxiety

Boris Otkhmezuri   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Marilisa Boffo   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Panote Siriaraya   ³ , PhD ;   Maria Matsangidou   ¹ , PhD ;   Reinout W Wiers   ² , PhD ;   Bundy Mackintosh   ⁴ , PhD ;   Chee Siang Ang   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Elske Salemink   ^{2, 5 *} , PhD

¹ Faculty of Sciences, School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

² Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

³ Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

⁴ Faculty of Science and Health, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

⁵ Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

*these authors contributed equally