In social psychology, two forms of attachment to groups are distinguished: interpersonal attraction and social identification. A web experiment was conducted to examine whether these two forms of attachment can also be differentiated in virtual ...
MUDs - completion or compensation of traditional ties?Abstract. The debate on the effects of virtual community participation has produced two opposed, however barely empirically tested, positions: One can be summarized as culture-pessimism, the other can ...
Online video games are a popular leisure activity around the world; such virtual environments enable new ways for social identity to develop. This study investigated the motives affecting social identification processes in the massive multiplayer online ...