Emotional responses to victory and defeat as a function of opponent

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-182

  Kivikangas, J Matias ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Games; psychology; user experience

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; GAMES; POSITIVE AFFECTS; POSITIVE EMOTIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84880529315     PISSN: 19493045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2013.12     Document Type: Article

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