Data for "Perspective Cue Contamination: How Viewing Position in Virtual Reality Distorts Employee Judgment"

Bars closer to the viewer are judged as larger, and this carries into gambling choices and trend forecasts.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Files</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 1A: 24 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers judged bar charts in a non-immersive virtual office on a computer monitor (3,331 observations).</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 1B: 47 undergraduate students did the same task in an immersive virtual office using a Meta Quest 2 headset (4,168 observations).</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 2A: Prolific participants chose between a risky gamble and a guaranteed $0.25 after seeing the win probability as a bar chart from the left or right.

The file also has their judged probability of winning.</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 2B.1: 78 Prolific participants (after exclusions) forecast the next value of a US employment time series viewed from the left or right.</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 2B.2: 99 Prolific participants (after exclusions) forecast week 10 of a controlled time series viewed from the left or right.</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 3A: 46 Prolific participants who own VR headsets judged charts where values were encoded by color instead of bar height (1,328 observations).</p><p dir="ltr">- Study 3B: 33 Prolific participants judged bar charts in a virtual office with added depth cues (957 observations).</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Task</p><p dir="ltr">In Studies 1A, 1B, 3A, and 3B, two bars were marked on each chart.