Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

Do video games enhance cognitive functioning? We conducted two meta-analyses based
on different research designs to investigate how video games impact information-processing …

Males have been proposed to be more vulnerable to internet addiction (IA) than females.
However, males and females may differ with respect to specific patterns and types of internet …

The inclusion of “Internet gaming disorder (IGD)” in the fifth edition of Diagnostic and
statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM‐5) creates a possible line of research. Despite …

Women and men play video games in approximately equal numbers. Despite this similarity,
video gaming is still strongly associated with men. A common justification for this stereotype …

We analyzed in-game content from titles released between 1983 and 2014 (n= 571)
featuring playable female characters. Results indicate that sexualization has diminished …

Gamification, applying game mechanics to nongame contexts, has recently become a hot
topic across a wide range of industries, and has been presented as a potential disruptive …

In recent years,“gamification” has been proposed as a solution for engaging people in
individually and socially sustainable behaviors, such as exercise, sustainable consumption …

Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been used successfully in tourism marketing. While
most conventional VR applications are of an audiovisual nature, the constant evolution of …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and Internet
Gaming Disorder (IGD)(while controlling for depression and anxiety), explore the presence …