Podcast 8: Envy and Microtransactions
How can envy can drive us to make in-game purchases and microtransactions? But also, what do we think of others who just buy things we chose to grind out? Let’s see what the research suggests.
Podcast 7: The State of Video Game Debates
What’s the popular topics and state of academic research on psychology and video games? And how can academics package that information for the media and everyone else?
Podcast 6: Using Psychology to Craft User Experiences
If the users of games are humans, then a little psychology should help a lot in user research, right? Celia Hodent from Epic Games explains why in this episode.
Podcast 5: Building Better AI Through Psychology
How can a little psychology make NPCs and other artificial intelligence agents in games seem more like real humans?
Podcast 4: Toxic Behavior
I talk to Dr. Jeffrey Lin about using psychology to curb toxic behavior in online games.
Podcast 3: Psychological Flow
I talk to Dr. Linda Kaye about psychological flow in video games, including the new topic of group flow in multiplayer gaming.
Podcast 2: Big Data and Becoming a Video Game Psychologist
We talk to Dr. Nick Yee about game companies’ use of big data and how he became a video game psychologist.
Podcast 1: Rage Quitting, Frustration and Aggression
I talk to Dr. Andrew Przybylski from Oxford about video game aggression, frustration, rage quitting, and motivation.