Steven Samuel
Villager
Will be closing this end Sunday 2nd November then analysing. Thank you all for your help! Will summarise results back here when known.
TTRPG players wanted for online psychology study
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FriendlyFiend
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Phew! Just squeaked in in time. It’ll be fascinating to learn a bit about your results.
Steven Samuel
Villager
Thank you for your help! Yup, given the number of comments I've had about that next time I will be sure to change that!
Steven Samuel
Villager
Thank you for your help!
Steven Samuel
Villager
Still going through the data but some first really interesting findings have emerged.
So, there were a total of 319 people who completed the survey and passed the attention checks. Average age of 39, mostly male. All recruited via various TTRPG forums like this.
To the question: "Imagine your player-character was aided an important way by another player-character. Would you feel grateful to the real person playing the character?"
75% said yes. Overwhelming majority. 11% said no, and 15% not sure.
To the question: "Imagine your player-character was promised something important by another player-character. However, your player-character was betrayed by the other player-character. Would you feel angry with the real person playing the character?"
Now 62% said NO. Only 17% said yes, with the rest unsure.
I mentioned this finding to Jon Peterson (RPG historian) and he thought this might reflect gamers' desire not to take other players' harmful actions against their characters personally. I thought it could mean that players might be surprised (pleasantly) when other players do them a good turn, but expect the opposite.
Another interesting but perhaps less surprising finding was that older age correlated negatively with power gaming (maximising rules to one's advantage) and positively with a greater emphasis on realistic simulation in gaming.
Thank you all for your help! Will post more as it's analysed.
So, there were a total of 319 people who completed the survey and passed the attention checks. Average age of 39, mostly male. All recruited via various TTRPG forums like this.
To the question: "Imagine your player-character was aided an important way by another player-character. Would you feel grateful to the real person playing the character?"
75% said yes. Overwhelming majority. 11% said no, and 15% not sure.
To the question: "Imagine your player-character was promised something important by another player-character. However, your player-character was betrayed by the other player-character. Would you feel angry with the real person playing the character?"
Now 62% said NO. Only 17% said yes, with the rest unsure.
I mentioned this finding to Jon Peterson (RPG historian) and he thought this might reflect gamers' desire not to take other players' harmful actions against their characters personally. I thought it could mean that players might be surprised (pleasantly) when other players do them a good turn, but expect the opposite.
Another interesting but perhaps less surprising finding was that older age correlated negatively with power gaming (maximising rules to one's advantage) and positively with a greater emphasis on realistic simulation in gaming.
Thank you all for your help! Will post more as it's analysed.
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