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Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, February 2014

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news: 24 news outlets
blogs: 3 blogs
policy: 1 policy source
twitter: 22 X users

peer_reviews: 1 peer review site
wikipedia: 1 Wikipedia page
reddit: 2 Redditors

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mendeley: 255 Mendeley
citeulike: 2 CiteULike

So far, Altmetric has seen 26 news stories from 24 outlets.

Science Still Doesn't Understand Video Games

Real Clear Science, 07 Jul 2014

Paul Bisceglio, PSMag Last spring, Gunwoo Yoon, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited…

Science Still Doesn’t Understand Video Games

Pacific Standard, 07 Jul 2014

But despite odd experiments and disparate conclusions, researchers are edging closer to a more nuanced idea of how they change…

Ça fait peur : un avatar qui influence la vie réelle

Futura-Sciences, 27 Feb 2014

Une nouvelle étude états-unienne suggère que le choix d’un avatar dans un jeu vidéo a une influence sur notre rapport aux…

Avatars may influence gamers' real world behavior: study

New York Daily News, 20 Feb 2014

Taking on the role of a game avatar like the benevolent Superman or villainous Voldemort may influence a person's behavior…

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