Prosocial rewards in competitive games

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Prosocial rewards in competitive games

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University of Waikato

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Description

The video game industry is large, and millions of individuals and groups play competitive games every month. However, through previous research which has shown competitive games to encourage antisocial behaviour in players, an antisocial stigma has been applied to competition in games, while cooperation in games has been shown to encourage prosocial behaviour. This research aims to find links between competitive games and prosocial rewards and show that cooperation is not the only way that ga...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2017

Creator

Kennedy, Finn

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11540

Related subjects

graphic / design / game / gameplay / prosocial / social / computer / science / processing / development / game development / game design / gaming

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