Replication Data for: Virtual Reality Embodiment Experiences Reduce Transgender Prejudice

Purpose. This dataset accompanies the paper Virtual Reality Embodiment Experiences Reduce Transgender Prejudice and is released to enable full replication, verification, and extension of the study’s findings. The materials reproduce every table and figure in the manuscript and support re-analysis of the main, placebo, and heterogeneity results. Nature. The study is a pre-registered, randomized controlled trial conducted with Turkish university students, comparing a culturally tailored 180° VR embodiment experience to a standard video intervention in a 2×2 factorial design. Survey data were collected at baseline (T₀), immediately post-treatment (T₁), and endline (T₂, four weeks later). Outcomes cover (i) transgender attitudes and beliefs and (ii) animalistic/mechanistic dehumanization indices, alongside placebo outcomes unrelated to gender identity. The deposited data are anonymized; no direct identifiers are included. Code is provided as documented R scripts that perform data cleaning, imputation, index construction (including PCA-based indices), estimation of treatment effects, placebo checks, and heterogeneity analyses (e.g., by right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, religiosity, and field of study). Scope. The deposit contains: RawData (anonymized surveys across T₀/T₁/T₂ and study-field/treatment distribution files), IntermediateData (cleaned, imputed, indexed datasets created by the scripts), FinalData (analysis-ready merged files for estimation), Core analysis objects (e.g., mit-google-experiment-data-survey.RDS, df, df-did), Scripts to replicate all tables/figures (see RunAll.R) and to export LaTeX tables and publication-ready plots, OutcomeFamily1/2 folders with model outputs and Bayes test results, Placebo analyses, ExperimentFootage (treatment and control videos shown in VR/video conditions), Surveys (English-language PDFs of the instruments). Running RunAll.R will regenerate the manuscript’s figures and tables and save them to the Plots and Tables folders. The dataset is intended for scholarly, non-commercial use to study VR’s effects on prejudice reduction and dehumanization in a Global South context. Please consult the included README for file structure and workflow details, and observe the license/usage terms specified in this Dataverse record. For questions, contact Umutcan Ay ([e-mail]).