Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games

A naturalistic public good experiment is used to examine whether better players cooperate more or less than others. ‘Better’ is measured by subjects’ accuracy in a team-based shooting game, and cooperation is measured by introducing a public good decision into the game. A data set of 92 subjects was...

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Main Authors: Chesney, T., Chuah, S., Hoffmann, R., Hui, Wendy, Larner, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Intellect Ltd 2014
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Online Access:http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2656/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26468
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author Chesney, T.
Chuah, S.
Hoffmann, R.
Hui, Wendy
Larner, J.
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Hui, Wendy
Larner, J.
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description A naturalistic public good experiment is used to examine whether better players cooperate more or less than others. ‘Better’ is measured by subjects’ accuracy in a team-based shooting game, and cooperation is measured by introducing a public good decision into the game. A data set of 92 subjects was created and results show that better players cooperate significantly less than others. Economic theory is used to explain the result.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-264682017-09-13T15:27:12Z Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games Chesney, T. Chuah, S. Hoffmann, R. Hui, Wendy Larner, J. skill public good performance MMOG cooperation shooting game A naturalistic public good experiment is used to examine whether better players cooperate more or less than others. ‘Better’ is measured by subjects’ accuracy in a team-based shooting game, and cooperation is measured by introducing a public good decision into the game. A data set of 92 subjects was created and results show that better players cooperate significantly less than others. Economic theory is used to explain the result. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26468 10.1386/jgvw.6.1.21_1 http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2656/ Intellect Ltd restricted
spellingShingle skill
public good
performance
MMOG
cooperation
shooting game
Chesney, T.
Chuah, S.
Hoffmann, R.
Hui, Wendy
Larner, J.
Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title_full Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title_fullStr Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title_full_unstemmed Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title_short Skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
title_sort skilled players cooperate less in multi-player games
topic skill
public good
performance
MMOG
cooperation
shooting game
url http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2656/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26468