backfire

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Pushing people too hard in a certain direction may have the opposite effect.

Could a backfire effect lead to transgressive play?

embedded design
- To avoid backfire effects, design systems with:
crowding out effect
- One form of a backfire
Spent Game To Reduce Prejudice Towards The Poor-Roussos
- There is a lot of stigma toward poverty. Games can help, but sometimes the autonomy and perspective taking of games actually increases stigma in people because they assume that impoverished people get given the same autonomy that they received in the game. An example of the backfire effect.
Self Reflection Through Roleplay In Chimeria Grayscale-Ortiz
- Design on reflection from a cognitive or learning sciences POV are largely absent from the literature. Previous work assumes that simply providing access to data will create reflection, but this doesn’t account for backfire effects and really doesn’t have any basis in general. Reflection needs to be scaffolded
- Used embedded design as a way to avoid backfire effects.