Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes

This study examined how players’ in-game decisions on the six moral foundation domains when interacting with NPCs influenced attitudes toward immigrants. A 3 (citizen vs. mixed citizen and foreign vs. foreign NPCs) by 2 (moral vs. neutral) experiment was conducted (N = 300). Participants in the mixe...

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Main Author: Koek, Dominic Wei Jie
Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
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Language:English
Published: 2022
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1587202023-03-05T16:27:22Z Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes Koek, Dominic Wei Jie Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS) 72nd Annual ICA Conference Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication Moral Foundations Theory Moral Choices Video Games Intergroup Attitudes Social Identity This study examined how players’ in-game decisions on the six moral foundation domains when interacting with NPCs influenced attitudes toward immigrants. A 3 (citizen vs. mixed citizen and foreign vs. foreign NPCs) by 2 (moral vs. neutral) experiment was conducted (N = 300). Participants in the mixed NPCs condition experienced significantly lower post-game attitudes toward immigrants. Participants who violated care/harm in-game experienced higher levels of guilt, but this had no impact on attitudes regarding immigrants. Ministry of Education (MOE) Submitted/Accepted version This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Academic Research Fund Tier 2 Grant (MOE2017-T2-2-145). 2022-09-09T02:56:02Z 2022-09-09T02:56:02Z 2022 Conference Paper Koek, D. W. J. (2022). Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes. 72nd Annual ICA Conference. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158720 https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA2022 en MOE2017-T2-2-145 © 2022 The Author(s). All rights reserved. This paper was published in Proceedings of 72nd Annual ICA Conference and is made available with permission of The Author(s). application/pdf
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Singapore
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topic Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication
Moral Foundations Theory
Moral Choices
Video Games
Intergroup Attitudes
Social Identity
spellingShingle Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication
Moral Foundations Theory
Moral Choices
Video Games
Intergroup Attitudes
Social Identity
Koek, Dominic Wei Jie
Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
description This study examined how players’ in-game decisions on the six moral foundation domains when interacting with NPCs influenced attitudes toward immigrants. A 3 (citizen vs. mixed citizen and foreign vs. foreign NPCs) by 2 (moral vs. neutral) experiment was conducted (N = 300). Participants in the mixed NPCs condition experienced significantly lower post-game attitudes toward immigrants. Participants who violated care/harm in-game experienced higher levels of guilt, but this had no impact on attitudes regarding immigrants.
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Koek, Dominic Wei Jie
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author Koek, Dominic Wei Jie
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title Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
title_short Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
title_full Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
title_fullStr Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
title_full_unstemmed Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes
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publishDate 2022
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https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA2022
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