Video Game Study Reveals People Behaviour When the World Ends
- Crosswalk
Essentially, when the world is about to end, you probably won't be spending much time on personal development.
The team wrote that people who stuck around until the end of the game tended to be the most peaceful, perhaps the most loyal to the game.
Whereas people who leave the game early of their own accord, which the team calls 'churners', tend to exhibit the most antisocial behaviors such as killing other players, as they lose their sense of responsibility and attachment to the game.
Overall, although the team emphasized the study was certainly limited by the fact that it took place in a video game, the end of the world was quite peaceful and even positive with the emergence of pro-social behavior towards the end.
The sentiment of social grouping-specific chat channels tending to be 'happier' as the end of time approaches is the first indication of pro-social behavior where existing social relationships are likely being strengthened," reads the team's conclusion.
Furthermore, they saw that players who survived to the end of the world showed a peak in the number of small groups while new social relationships were being formed.
The study is published in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion and a preprint version via arXiv.
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