Archives

• A Tale of Two Talent Trees
• Anonymity and Antisocial Behavior
• Anonymity and Blizzard Forums
• APB: All Points Bulletin or Aggregated Payment Bias? Both.
• Articles for Edge Magazine Online
• Bayonetta: Witches With Halos
• Benign Envy and The Psychology of Tiny Tower
• Book Review: Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
• Burnout, Crunch, and the Games You Play
• Closed Betas and Group Culture
• Come See Me Lecture at the Login 2010 Conference
• Competition, Cooperation, and Play
• Conan the Loss Averse Barbarian
• Conceptual Consumption and Kicks to the Head
• Confirmatory Information Bias and Tony Hawk RIDE
• Creativity, Puzzle Games, and Brain Damage
• Deindividuation + Character Creator = Stab Them in the Face
• DJ Jazzy Contrast – The Contrast Effect and DJ Hero Renegade
• Draw Something Uncertain
• Duke Nukem Forever: Escalating Commitment and Chewing Bubblegum
• Endowed Progress Effect and Game Quests
• Et Cetera April 2010
• Et Cetera, February 2010
• Et Cetera, March 2010
• Framing and World of Warcraft’s Rest System
• Freezing Your Decision-Making Synapses
• Fun is Had When Your Time Flies
• Fundamental Attribution Error and A Tale of Two Tigers
• Gamer Dreams
• Gaming for Mondays
• Hedonic Adaptation and Game Reviews
• Heuristics, Ho!
• Hot Hand Fallacy and Kill Streaks in Modern Warfare 2
• How Game Tutorials Can Strangle Player Creativity
• How Reciprocity Yields Bumper Crops in Farmville
• How Social Identity Theory Predicted the Console Wars of ’07
• I Did a Podcast!
• Ideal Self Image and Game Choice
• Irrational Games on The Psychology of Fear
• Jam and Game Reviews
• Just One More Level: Decision Making Under Arousal
• Just World Hypothesis and Homefront
• Kinecting With Your Emotions
• Login 2010 Lecture Slides
• Loss Aversion and the Crackdown 2 Demo
• Loss Aversion, Achievements, and Trial Conversions
• Modifying Player Behavior in League of Legends With Honor
• Motion Controls and Presence
• Needs and Gratification Theory and Game Genres
• Netflix, GameFly, and Predicting the Future
• Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft
• Picking Your Guildies: The Role of Attraction, Selection, and Attrition
• Priming, Consistency, Cheating, and Being a Jerk
• Procedural Justice and Nerfing
• Psychological Flow and Fake Plastic Rock
• Psychological Reactance and Bioware Games
• Psychology of Games: Now Appearing in GamePro Magazine
• Red Rings and Research Methods
• Regression to the Mean and Owning Some Chumps
• Self-Perception Theory and Marketing through Avatars
• Seven Psychological Sins of SimCity Social
• Situational Judgment Tests as RPGs
• Some stuff lost in a restoration…
• Steamed Endowed Progress a la carte
• Sunk Costs, Pre-Orders, and Game Over
• The Availability Heuristic is Always On
• The Charitable Status Halo Quo
• The Contrast Effect: The Cover Art of Borderlands
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Multiplayer Games
• The Endowment Effect and Used Game Sales
• The Glitcher’s Dilemma: Social Dilemmas in Games
• The Power of You. No, Wait, Others. I Meant The Power of Others
• The Psychological Appeal of Violent Shooters
• The Psychological Weight of History
• The Psychology of Anonymity
• The Psychology of Apology (and Hugs)
• The Psychology of Avatars in Edge Magazine
• The Psychology of Child’s Play
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 1: Anchoring the Auction House
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 2 Availability Heuristic and Loot Drops
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 3 Dopamine Binds On Pickup
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 4 Historical Items
• The Psychology of Fair Play
• The Psychology of Fear in Video Games
• The Psychology of Free-to-Play Games in Edge Magazine
• The Psychology of Game Nostalgia in Edge Magazine #242
• The Psychology of Game of the Year Debates
• The Psychology of Games Reading List
• The Psychology of Genres in Edge Magazine #241
• The Psychology of High Scores in Edge Magazine
• The Psychology of Horror
• The Psychology of Immersion
• The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games
• The Psychology of Loot
• The Psychology of Microsoft Points Part 1: Waste Aversion
• The Psychology of Microsoft Points Part 2: Conversion Factors
• The Psychology of Shooters
• The Psychology of Shooters (Online)
• The Psychology of Sony’s Playstation Move Announcement
• The Status Quo Effect (Or, Pay Without Play)
• The Uncanny Valley and Character Design
• The Unit Effect and Player Perceptions
• The Walking Dead, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
• The Zeigarnik Effect and Quest Logs
• Thoughts on Immersion in Skyrim
• Three Reasons Why We Buy Those Crazy Steam Bundles
• To Sleep, Perchance to Pwn
• Trials Evolution, Social Comparisons, and Second Place
• Two Lessons From Team Fortress 2
• Why Do We Love Genres So Much?
• Why We Get Nostalgic About Good Old Games
• Xbox Game Room’s Dummy Pricing (Not for Dummies)
• Zerg Rushed by a Tiger? Just give up.