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Urgra wrote:

I liked this article. As a 4th year Counseling Psychology Doctoral student (having completed a thesis and halfway through my dissertation), I wish I would have thought about working in this area instead. My current research is fun, but not this fun . /sigh

Anyway, the research waspretty good. It would be nice if this were published in Journal of Social Psychology oranother mainstream journal. These type of studies have made it to other journals such as:

Emotional stability pertaining to the game Vampire: The Masquerade. By: Simon, Armando. Psychological Reports, Oct98, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p732, 3p; (AN 1275336)

Personalities of players of dungeons and dragons. By: Carter, Robert; Lester, David. Psychological Reports, Feb98, Vol. 82 Issue 1, p182, 1p; (AN 318511)

Do Role-Playing Games Promote Crime, Satanism and Suicide among Players as Critics Claim? By: Lancaster, Kurt. Journal of Popular Culture, Fall94, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p67, 13p; (AN 9508060208)

The personality of fantasy game players. By: Douse, Neil A.; McManus, I. C.. British Journal of Psychology, Nov93, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p505, 5p, 1 chart; (AN 9408020600)

From the first day I logged onto SWG, I thought, "Ah, I should change my dissertation" but then I decided not to because... well, a "good dissertation is a done dissertation." Plus, my husband would have killed me if I was always taking notes while we were playing. I have started thinking abouttaking my degree into the gaming industry in some way -- to help make psychological thrillers more realistic, etc. Hopefully that isn't a pipe dream.

Chyann

Message Edited by Urgra on 11-11-2004 03:07 PM

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NewJedi wrote:

I thought some of you might be interested in this rather scholarly study of social interaction in SWG and MMORPGs more generally:

SWG Study

Message Edited by NewJedi on 11-10-2004 04:54 PM

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im trying to base the date on this based on certian things mentioned in the article

holotainers started really showing up january and feburary, and extended well into august, assuming i remember correctly

mention of the scythe, which was not ingame untill feburary i believe

8k doc buffs, prices went up around julyish, if im correct

so, based on this, it would put the range of time for this between may and august, as, the doc buff stuff could have been collected near the end of the study

one thing that does puzzle me is the appearent lack of mention of buffbots, perhaps his server didnt have very many of them, or something to that extent.

Forgive the late reply, I just finally got around to plowing through this.

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dimmu-borgir wrote:
one thing that does puzzle me is the appearent lack of mention of buffbots, perhaps his server didnt have very many of them, or something to that extent.

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The article specifically said that entertainer buffs require targeting the recipient and using a command, and so can't be automated. So this article predates the entertainer buff "enhancement."

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Banthabutcher wrote:
If a person plays a Rodian or Ithorian, does that mean they're content with their appearance and self-esteem that they don't need to personify themselves into a supermodel body online?

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Um, no.

I really like the idea of writing a computer program that can distinguish between live players and AFKers by the dynamism of their social interaction. If the paper's authors did it offhand as a research tool, how hard can it be for the devs to do it in game?


J.

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