Podcast 35: Player Empathy and Drivers of Gameplay
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Big Five Personality Theories
The Big Five personality theories, that's that is sort of what has been mostly settled on as one particularly useful model of human personality. So I did a bunch of qualitative analysis, qualitative interviews with gamers. It was very clear that personality tends to predict your favorite games and it tends to predict the reasons that you'll start to play a game. But we found over time that the Big Five stuff, while it's super great at having a conversation around diversity, like different types of taste and what sorts of people there are,. We found that long term, it does a really terrible job doing prediction. That's where SDT came in, which is a different structure that predicts long term satisfaction.
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