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Rogatko, Thais Piassa; Froh, Jeffrey J.; Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua; Rasmussen, Heather; McCraty, Rollin; Rees, Robert A.; Vittersø, Joar; O’Brien, Joseph J.; White, Steven R.; Ventegodt, Søren; Merrick, Joav; Thorkildsen, Theresa A.; Hanus, Kurt M.; Edwards, Lisa M.; Wertz, Frederick J.; Bridges, Sara K.; Tangney, June P.; Martin, Rod A.

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“…The notion of eudaimonia (and its juxtaposition with hedonia) stems from ancient Greek philosophy regarding what it means to live “a good life” (Delle Fave et al, 2011; Tiberius & Mason, 2009). Compared to the hedonic idea of striving for as much pleasure and positive experiences as possible (Huta & Waterman, 2014; Vittersø, 2009), eudaimonism describes how a good life is achieved by only pursuing worthwhile aspects of life such as exercising virtues or using the best in ourselves and fully realizing our human potential (Delle Fave et al, 2011; Huta, 2017; Tiberius & Mason, 2009). Recent insights from (positive) psychology translated these two notions by framing them as separate perspectives on well-being.…”

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Excited for eudaimonia? An emergent thematic analysis of player expectations of upcoming video games.

Bowman¹,

Daneels²,

Possler³

2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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Video games are celebrated for their capacity to elicit myriad emotional experiences, from fun and excitement (hedonia) to reflection and contemplation (eudaimonia). Less clear is the extent to which gamers have salient eudaimonic expectations of upcoming games. The current study reports on an emergent thematic analysis of responses from N = 877 fans of five game franchises known to vary in their eudaimonic capacity but in response to yet-to-be-released games within those franchises: Far Cry 6, Final Fantasy XVI, Forza Horizon 5, Mass Effect 5, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 (later renamed to Tears of the Kingdom). We identified 15 themes across seven categories: familiarity, aesthetics, relationships, emotions, immersion, game features, and developer notes. Most themes focused on discrete game features, while the few themes aligning with eudaimonia (e.g., "emotions" and "personal meaning") were mentioned infrequently. Gamers seem more likely to express expectations for specific content over more abstract affective experiences, offering further evidence that eudaimonia is less anticipated and more discovered during gameplay. Public Policy Relevance StatementFew challenge that video games are fun and enjoyable, but only recently has the notion of more serious and meaningful gaming experience been given serious attention. Gamers commonly report having deeper emotional reactions to video games, but less is known about their expectations for these emotions that might motivate gameplay. The current study asked fans of popular game franchises to write about their expectations of soon-to-be-released video games known for emotionally complex content. Contrary to expectations, players mostly wrote about specific game features and spoke less about emotions and personal meaning. These data suggest that deeper emotional reactions to video games are not so much anticipated as they are experienced during and after gameplay.

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Section: Eudaimonia and Video Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Excited for eudaimonia? An emergent thematic analysis of player expectations of upcoming video games.

Bowman¹,

Daneels²,

Possler³

2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…Thus in the present study we investigate the problem of low energy greybody factors for fermions emitted by a Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole. In order to do this we apply similar methods used by Unruh [10] for the case of Schwarzschild black holes (see also more recent studies [11,12]). This consists mainly in obtaining approximative analytical solutions to the field equations in the vicinity of the black hole, respectively the cosmological horizons and then matching these solutions (technique valid only at low energies) and determining the absorbtion probabilities or equivalently the greybody factors.…”

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Low energy greybody factors for fermions emitted by a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole

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Borowiec²

2016

Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

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In this paper we are discussing the problem of low-energy greybody factors for fermions emitted by a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole. In our study we are using the analytical methods proposed by Unruh some time ago for determining the greybody factors. We have found that at low energies the greybody factors are constant for a given total angular momentum (similar to what happens in the case of scalar particles reported before in the literature). Also our results are indicating an enhancement in the energy spectrum if one is increasing the value of the cosmological constant. These results are consistent with numerical calculations performed in Ref. [14] by S.F. Wu et al. (Phys.Rev.D 78, 084010).

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Low energy greybody factors for fermions emitted by a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole

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