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What makes male gamers angry, sad, amused, and enthusiastic while playing violent video games? ...
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Gaming elicits strong emotional responses. However, little is known about which situations within the gameplay elicit specific emotions. Thus, we aimed to identify which gaming situations elicit positive and negative emotions. We asked Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gamers (N = 652) to recall and write about a situation when they felt amused, angry, enthusiastic, or sad. In our analysis, we used semantic coding and affective words analysis using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). We found that gamers described emotional situations (e.g., clutch, victory, or hacking) that we clustered into 12 broader categories (e.g., positive performance outcomes, underperforming, and technical issues). Gamers reported similar (rather than specific) situations for anger and sadness and similar for amusement and enthusiasm. We documented a wider than usually considered range of positive and negative emotions related to gaming along with specific gaming themes that produce these emotions. These findings contribute to ...
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170113 Social and Community Psychology; FOS Psychology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14055245
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/What_makes_male_gamers_angry_sad_amused_and_enthusiastic_while_playing_violent_video_games_/14055245
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The Effects of Recalling Positive and Negative Contacts on Linguistic Discrimination towards Migrant People ...
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The Effects of Recalling Positive and Negative Contacts on Linguistic Discrimination towards Migrant People ...
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Pronouns, Prescriptivism, and Prejudice: Attitudes toward the Singular 'They', Prescriptive Grammar, and Nonbinary Transgender People ...
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Psychological Resilience Mechanisms and Mental Health Perspectives of Marginalized Pakistani Communities ...
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The Relationship Between Emotion Models and Artificial Intelligence
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Sober social networks : the role of online support groups in recovery from alcohol addiction
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Cross-Cultural Differences in Informal Argumentation: Norms, Inductive Biases and Evidentiality. Supplementary Material ...
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Cross-Cultural Differences in Informal Argumentation: Norms, Inductive Biases and Evidentiality. Supplementary Material ...
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