Moral Intuitions In Detroit Become Human-Arrambide
#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : Authors: Arrambide Yoon Macarthur Rogers Luz Nacke
previous work has looked at intuitionism in games, but hasn’t looked into motivations and reasoning behind player decision making progress. Not sure how much I buy that but OK
moral decision making in games is affected by NPC parasocial relationships
Background
- reverse transference of moral values occurs in games
- ohhh boy it’s time for moral foundations theory
- moral disengagement
- justifiability affects the enjoyable experience of being immoral.
Methodology
Prerecorded video to jog people’s memory, then the Moral Foundations Questionnaire and interviewing.
#killerMethodology
Results
- be yourself, then experiment
- decision making affected by NPC parasocial relationships
- players avoid feeling guilty in games
- narrative realism leads to moral engagement
- participants did not value authority as much, which is common amongst left leaning people.
