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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| author | Chesney, T. Chuah, S. Hoffmann, R. 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 |