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Perceived value of video games, but not hours played, predicts mental well-being in adult Nintendo players
Studies on video games and well-being often rely on self-report measures or data from a single game. Here, we study how 703 US adults’ …
Nick Ballou, Matti Vuorre, Thomas Hakman, Kristoffer Magnusson, Andrew K Przybylski
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How do video games affect mental health? A narrative review of 13 proposed mechanisms
Researchers have proposed a variety of mechanisms through which playing video games might affect mental health: by displacing more …
Nick Ballou, Thomas Hakman, Matti Vuorre, Kristoffer Magnusson, Andrew K Pryzbylski
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Understanding whether lockdowns lead to increases in the heaviness of gaming using massive-scale data telemetry: An analysis of 251 billion hours of playtime
Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to determine whether any specific lockdown policy led to meaningful increases in the …
David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Darel Hargarth, Nick Ballou, Joe Cutting, Anders Drachen
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Awareness of and engagement with Open Research behaviours: Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) with the UK Reproducibility Network
Objectives: A need for Open Research practices exists, yet there remains a lack of validated questionnaires to assess Open Research …
Emma Norris, Kait Clark, Marcus Munafo, Caroline Jay, Jessie Baldwin, Alexandra Lautarescu, Hugo Pedder, Mike Page, Eike Mark Rinke, Charlotte Burn, Will Cawthorn, Nick Ballou, Scott Glover, Samuel Evans, Stephanie Rossit, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Emma Wise, Mark Kelson, Nadia Soliman, Andrew Jones, Rianne Costello, David Smailes, Laura L. Wilkinson, Elena Serena Piccardi, Adam Michael Partridge, Charlotte Hulme, Anna Schultze, Charlotte Rebecca Pennington
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The Hidden Intricacy of Loot Box Design: A Granular Description of Random Monetized Reward Features
Loot boxes are the focus of growing research and regulatory attention. While they are frequently treated as a monolithic feature of …
Nick Ballou, Charles Gbadamosi, David Zendle
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