How People Express Their Real Selves in Virtual Worlds

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People have the freedom to be whoever they want when they play video games. So how do they choose to behave? ScottAMcGreal explains.

and self-discipline, while low conscientiousness is associated with impulsivity and carelessness. Hence, these results seem to suggest that, in some respects, conscientiousness is expressed similarly online and in real life.Differences in impulsivity might also help explain why players low in conscientiousness engage in more combat-oriented activities.

Obviously, raiding dungeons in an online game is not aRelatedly, a study in which participants were asked to create a character for use in an online fantasy role-playing game whose moral alignment could be a choice of good, neutral, or evil, found that participants high in agreeableness and conscientiousness were more likely to choose good rather than evil characters, and vice versa for those low in these traits .

 

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