Sensation seeking, self forgetfulness, and computer game enjoyment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5618 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 632-641

  Fang, Xiaowen ^a   Zhao, Fan ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer game; Enjoyment; Personality; Self forgetfulness; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; PERSONALITY THEORY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SENSATION-SEEKING; US UNIVERSITIES;

COMPUTER CRIME;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 76249091228     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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