Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour

We relate different self-reported measures of computer use to individuals' propensity to cooperate in the Prisoner's dilemma. The average cooperation rate is positively related to the self-reported amount participants spend playing computer games. None of the other computer time use variab...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mengel, Friederike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
Materias:
Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24718635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094099
_version_ 1782311106669182976
author Mengel, Friederike
author_facet Mengel, Friederike
author_sort Mengel, Friederike
collection PubMed
description We relate different self-reported measures of computer use to individuals' propensity to cooperate in the Prisoner's dilemma. The average cooperation rate is positively related to the self-reported amount participants spend playing computer games. None of the other computer time use variables (including time spent on social media, browsing internet, working etc.) are significantly related to cooperation rates.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3981774
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2014
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-39817742014-04-11 Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour Mengel, Friederike PLoS One Research Article We relate different self-reported measures of computer use to individuals' propensity to cooperate in the Prisoner's dilemma. The average cooperation rate is positively related to the self-reported amount participants spend playing computer games. None of the other computer time use variables (including time spent on social media, browsing internet, working etc.) are significantly related to cooperation rates. Public Library of Science 2014-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3981774/ /pubmed/24718635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094099 Text en © 2014 Friederike Mengel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Mengel, Friederike
Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title_full Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title_fullStr Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title_short Computer Games and Prosocial Behaviour
title_sort computer games and prosocial behaviour
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24718635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094099
work_keys_str_mv AT mengelfriederike computergamesandprosocialbehaviour

Ejemplares similares