Blood, guts and gore aren’t what thrill avid gamers when they slaughter zombies in TheHouse of the Dead III video game, a new study suggests. Instead, feelings of control and competence are what the players crave. The new research, led by psychologist Richard Ryan at the University of Rochester in New York, appears online January 16 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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