My avatar behaves well and this feels right: Ideal and ought selves in video gaming

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1175-1182

  Jin, Seung A Annie ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Charitable donation; Empathy; Flow; Ideal self; Ought self; Prosocial games; Self discrepancy; Violent games

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053987515     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2011.39.9.1175     Document Type: Article

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