“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that… — Nick Yee Gun violence Copy Share Image
“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male… — Nick Yee Female character Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Anti religious Copy Share Image
“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level… — Nick Yee Female character Copy Share Image
“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site.… — Nick Yee Falling in love Copy Share Image
“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17” — Nick Yee Gender roles Copy Share Image
“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.” — Nick Yee Motivation Copy Share Image
“As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference[s]” between male and… — Nick Yee Real women Copy Share Image
“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with… — Nick Yee Tabula rasa Copy Share Image
“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow… — Nick Yee Long term Copy Share Image
“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20… — Nick Yee Nature of man Copy Share Image
“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were… — Nick Yee Computer science Copy Share Image
“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on… — Nick Yee Child care Copy Share Image
“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and… — Nick Yee Life choices Copy Share Image
“Any player playing World of Warcraft can reach the highest level if he or she puts enough hours into the game. This… — Nick Yee Bad game Copy Share Image
“women are more likely to experience guilt when they engage in leisure activities in the home. This conflicted sense of leisure is… — Nick Yee Desire Copy Share Image
“Since the boom days of World of War-craft and Second Life, there has been a strange, stagnant lull in terms of virtual… — Nick Yee Online Gaming Copy Share Image
“Not only are the gender overlaps large, but the gender differences are actually inflated at the outset. One danger of studying gaming… — Nick Yee Gender differences Copy Share Image
“Peter Steiner’s 1993 cartoon in the New Yorker captured the promise of freedom and anonymity that the Internet once offered: “On the… — Nick Yee Freedom Copy Share Image
“Boys encouraged to play video games grow up to become men who are interested in making video games. Girls, on the other… — Nick Yee End result Copy Share Image
