Moral decisions in video games and players’ intergroup attitudes

• Main Author: Koek, Dominic Wei Jie
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication; Moral Foundations Theory; Moral Choices; Video Games; Intergroup Attitudes; Social Identity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158720; https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA2022
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...