“In the Mood to Game”: Selective exposure and mood management processes in computer game play

New Media and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 375-393

  Bowman, Nicholas D ^a   Tamborini, Ron ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer games; intervention potential; learned expectations; mood management; selective exposure; task demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922861435     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813504274     Document Type: Article

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