Game Perspective-Taking Effects on Players' Behavioral Intention, Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Self-Efficacy to Help Immigrants: The Case of "Papers, Please"

• Published in: Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking Vol. 21; no. 11; p. 687
• Main Authors: Peña, Jorge, Hernández Pérez, Juan Francisco, Khan, Subuhi, Cano Gómez, Ángel Pablo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Attitude; Emigrants and Immigrants; Female; Helping Behavior; Humans; Intention; Male; Politics; Random Allocation; Role Playing; Self Efficacy; Video Games - psychology; theory of planned behavior; immigration; perspective taking; video games
• ISSN: 2152-2723
• DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2018.0030

This study expands on game character perspective-taking effects on political opinions while controlling for players' social dominance orientation or inclination for inequality among social groups. Random assignment to play a game as an immigration inspector decreased intention, subjective norms...