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By Neils L. Clark
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Gamasutra
August 22, 2006

Addiction and the Structural Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games

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Addiction and the Structural Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games


Abstract of the Thesis

This work also provides a comprehensive review of videogame-related
literature in fields as diverse as communications, psychology, sociology, and neuroscience; this reading suggested that behaviors noted as detrimental in psychology and neuroscience were being observed in studies of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) gamers.

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