Introduction

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-9

  Ritterfeld, Ute ^a   Cody, Michael ^b   Vorderer, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84908901984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Editorial

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