Perceived existence/realism of others

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The definitions under this heading explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is only external (outside the body); and there is an inaccurate perceptioon that technology is not involved in the experience 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):

Gunawardena 1995 in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):
“[T]he degree to which a person is perceived as a ‘real person’ in mediated communication"