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023 - Self Determination Theory and Video Games

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Importance of Need Satisfaction in Games

"I'm a psychologist, not that I don't care about violence in video games," he says. "We're just trying to put kind of practical value data on the table for people to consider" The level of need satisfaction was what predicted whether or not people enjoyed it wanted to play more - and there's no evidence this link between violence and bad outcomes has been proven by research so we can keep looking at this.

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