Gender roles Quote by Nick Yee

“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that lead to…

— Nick Yee

“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This…

— Nick Yee

The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying…

— Nick Yee

“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and…

— Nick Yee

“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love…

— Nick Yee

“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.”

— Nick Yee

“As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference[s]” between male and female gamers.…

— Nick Yee

“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental…

— Nick Yee

“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…

— Nick Yee

“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy…

— Nick Yee

“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.…

— Nick Yee

“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to…

— Nick Yee