Why play? An evolutionary perspective

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 115-130

  Ohler, Peter ^a   Nieding, Gerhild ^b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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