Women in math, science, and engineering (MSE) often face stereotype threat: they fear that
their performance in MSE will confirm an existing negative stereotype—that women are bad …

Over a decade of research on the Proteus effect in numerous contexts suggests that people
conform in behavior and attitudes to their avatars' characteristics. In order to provide clarity …

Computerised graphical representations of human users and computer agents, known as
avatars and embodied agents, have been extensively explored and investigated in …

Digital education tools increasingly incorporate mechanisms traditionally associated with
video games, such as avatars, defined as mediated representations of human users that …

While online multiplayer games provide an opportunity for players to both maintain and
establish new connections, male and female players have been found to experience these …

Online gaming is part of contemporary life, with a range of influences on gamer's behaviour.
The convergence and alignment of an individual's attitude and behaviour with features and …

Introduction Honor of Kings (HoK) is one of the most popular mobile games worldwide. To
understand why players actively engage with digital games, it is essential to focus on their …

Investigating the role of identity in mediated experiences involves a great deal of complexity.
However, media psychologists all too often explore the antecedents and consequences of …

Roughly defined as “a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by
electronic systems”, eSports is already a key phenomenon of the modern digital area …

Much of the research involving perceived characteristics of so-called “gamers” has been
directed at deconstructing traditional stereotypes associated with the term. As gaming has …