• DOI:10.1177/1555412014559978
Corpus ID: 147266246

Shallow Gamification

@article{Lieberoth2015ShallowG,
  title={Shallow Gamification},
  author={Andreas Lieberoth},
  journal={Games and Culture},
  year={2015},
  volume={10},
  pages={229 - 248}
}

Andreas Lieberoth

Published 2015

Psychology

Games and Culture

This article experimentally dissociates the psychological impact of framing versus game mechanics, when presenting a serious activity as a game. Studies of game elements in nongame contexts tend to describe full packages, with no way of assessing their individual psychological and functional impact. To isolate the effects of framing, students (N = 90) were assigned to either discuss study environment issues through a list of questions, via a competitive discussion board game, or though the same… CONTINUE READING

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