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Digital Games and Media Economics

1 paper

Affective Uplift During Video Game Play: A Naturalistic Case Study

Matti Vuorre, Nick Ballou, Thomas Hakman, Kristoffer Magnusson, Andrew K Przybylski
Games Research and Practice Summary & key facts 2024 7 citations

This case study looked at 162,325 in-game mood reports from 67,328 play sessions of 8,695 players of the game PowerWash Simulator. On average, players reported a 0.034 (0.032, 0.036) higher mood during play than at the start of sessions on a 0–1 visual scale. The authors estimate that 72.1% (70.8%,…

Digital Games and Media Impact of Technology on Adolescents Mind wandering and attention
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