Psychology of Video Games Podcast

016 - Online Relationships and Friendships

In this episode I talk with Rachel Kowert about friendships and other relationships formed in online games. Can these kinds of friendships substitute for offline relationships? Are they better or worse in some ways? About the podcast: Subscribe in iTunes herePodcast RSS FeedPrevious episodes Audio Credits "Robot Motivation" by The Polish Ambassador, licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0Wagon Wheel Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Over" rel="noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Over</a> Under Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>

Examining how psychology explains why video games are made how they are and why gamers behave as we do.