Perceived existence/realism of others

Details:

The definitions under this heading can involve technology or not involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is external and/ or internal; there is either an accurate perceptioon that there is no technology involved in the experience or an inaccurate perception that technology is not involved when it is; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically the perception that others exist (i.e., are real).

Sample defintion(s):

Heeter (1992):
“Social presence refers to the extent to which other beings (living or synthetic) also exist in the world and appear to react to you” (p. 262)