What can we learn from playing interactive games?

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 447-469

  Lieberman, Debra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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