Improving Undergraduate Attitudes Towards Responsible Conduct of Research Through an Interactive Storytelling Game

Grasse, Katelyn M.; Melcer, Edward F.; Kreminski, Max; Junius, Nick; Wardrip‐Fruin, Noah

doi:10.1145/3411763.3451722

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“…Participants who derived greater meaning from the intergroup cooperation storyline endorsed more positive attitudes toward an unspecified ethnic outgroup after gameplay, even after controlling for baseline attitudes (H1). This finding enriches an existing body of research documenting how the perceived meaningfulness of gamified narratives could lead to positive moral cognitions [30] and intentions to engage in helping behavior [6]. Past research on interactive narratives has predominantly focused on perspective-taking, where players are made to embody the viewpoint of an outgroup or "othered" character [6,31,32].…”

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A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Meaningfulness and Positive Intergroup Outcomes Through Prosocial Gameplay

Ibasco

Chen

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This study examines how the meaningfulness of a story influences empathy and attitudes towards racial or ethnic outgroups through a prosocial video game that features meaningful dialogic encounters with a fictional NPC outgroup character. Through a moderated mediation analysis, the role of outgroup identification in facilitating empathic feelings is also examined. An online pre-post user study was carried out with 206 participants aged from 20 to 61. Results showed meaningfulness was positively associated with attitudes towards racial or ethnic outgroups after playing the game. Empathic feelings mediated the link between meaningfulness and intergroup attitudes. Outgroup identification positively moderated the relationship between meaningfulness and empathy. Theoretical implications and limitations are discussed.

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