The "left digit effect" is why game prices usually end in .99, but it also has implications for people looking to sell in-game items and for developers who want to tweak in-game systems.
I count myself among those who never understood the big deal about this term. It fits, it 's short, it 's not awkward unlike any alternative I 've seen , and it 's generally understood. If you want more specificity, just add modifiers: core gamer, casual gamer, etc. And if ...
I didn 't mention it in the OP, but the researchers actually thought of this too. They had a follow-up experiment where they let people in the sequential condition scroll back and forth between options. The effects on likelihood to switch was definitely less, but it was still there. They ...
Great article, and thanks for the plug I agree that behaviorism isn 't the way forward for people wanting to apply psychology to games once those basic lessons are applied. Instead, I 've been really interested in fields like behavioral economics and the study of decision-making. There 's a gold ...
Glad you all like the article. I agree that it's not something that you would want to overuse and implement on every quest. Humans have an amazing ability to become acclimated to stuff like that and have it lose its potency. Regarding some of the other questions about whether players/shoppers ...
Despite being a game it told this intimate story about your relationship with this one other character. Yep, the relationship between Chell and the Weighted Companion Cube is one I'll never forget.
