This study reports the development of multisensorial VR based environments that combine a wide array of methods for emotional elicitation. A convenience sample of 40 participants (26 females, 14 males), aged 18-30 years (M = 22.7; SD=2.72), were asked to report their emotional state (happy or sad; positive and negative affect; valence - pleasure/displeasure, degree of arousal, dominance and presence) after the exposure to one of the VR environments (“happy”, “sad” and neutral environments) in a mixed design. An interaction was found between VR environment (happy/sad) and emotion (happiness/sadness), in the expected way: significantly higher values of happiness in the happy scenario compared to the others, and significantly higher values of sadness in the sad scenario. An interaction between VR environment and valence followed the same pattern of the previous analysis. As expected, the results point towards a congruency between VR environment and reported elicited emotion and valence.

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