Here is a ginormous list of all articles that have ever been posted on this site.

• Psychology and Marvel Rivals
• The Mere Completion Effect: Why Players Choose to Finish (Teaser)
• Mastering Dungeons Podcast
• Skill Check: Are D&D Players More Charismatic?
• Podcast 99 – Toxicity and Support
• Why Do D&D Players Like Rolling Their Own Dice?
• Podcast 98 – Embedding Values in Games
• Are D&D Players More Empathetic?
• Podcast 97 – Why We Like Hard (and Easy) Games
• Podcast 96 – The Psychology of D&D Book Preview
• The Psychology of Dungeons & Dragons
• Podcast 95 – Sense of Place
• Podcast 94 – The Psychology of Gaming Passion
• Podcast 93 – Do Games Make You Smarter?
• Podcast 92 – Gaming Nostalgia
• Podcast 91 – Avatars
• Podcast 90 – ADHD and Gaming
• Podcast 89 – In-Game Purchases and Virtual Currency
• Podcast 88 – Dungeons & Dragons & Skills
• Podcast 87 – How Do We Get Immersed in Game Worlds?
• Podcast 86 – The Psychology of Role-Playing
• Podcast 85 – The Psychology of Loot and the Diablo Series
• Podcast 84 – Games and Moral Reasoning
• Podcast 83 – Gaming Motivation and Grinding
• Podcast 82 – Therapy with Dungeons & Dragons
• Podcast 81 – The Psychology of Digital Sales
• Podcast 80 – The State of Esports Research
• Using Social Proof to Battle Toxic Behavior
• Podcast 79 – Video Game Nostalgia
• Using VR Games as Pain Management
• Podcast 78 – Critical Role, D&D, and Transformative Play
• How to Give Your Dungeon Master Feedback Like a Pro
• Podcast 77 – The Psychology of Fandom
• Using Games to Develop Empathy
• Podcast 76 – Virtual Reality in Therapy
• How to Disguise Lousy Luck as an Absolute Win
• Podcast 75 – Cheating in Games
• Watching Eyes and Listening Ears in Valorant
• Podcast 74 – 1.5-Sided Parasocial Relationships
• Level Drain and Loss Aversion in D&D
• Podcast 73 – Toxic Behavior In Games
• Morally Disengaged Murder Hobos
• Podcast 72: Esports Medicine
• How Some Games Keep You Playing
• Podcast 71: The Psychology of Video Game Engagement
• Fluency in Dragon
• Podcast 70: Memes and Memetic Communication
• Making Monsters of the Multiverse More Collectible
• Psychology of Games in 2022
• NFTs and Psychological History
• Podcast 69: Game Transfer Phenomena
• Podcast 68: Fan Conventions
• Podcast 67: Esports Performance Consulting
• Podcast 66: Procedural Rhetoric in Games
• Podcast 65: Psychology and Final Fantasy
• Podcast 64: How Can Games Make Us Happy?
• Podcast 63: Loss Aversion and Game Design
• My new Book on Psychology and Games is Out!
• Podcast 62: The Psychology of Trolling
• Podcast 61: Twitch Donations
• Podcast 60: Take This (dot org)
• Deep Rock Habits vs. Rewards
• Podcast 59: What is a Games Researcher?
• Good Old Scarce Games
• Podcast 58: Economics and Online Games
• Podcast 57: Mental Models in League of Legends
• Video: The Psychology of Video Game Engagement
• Podcast 56: RPG Therapy
• The Perils of In-Game Currency
• Podcast 55: The Psychology of Level Design
• Why Do People Collect Virtual Items?
• Podcast 54: Effects of Sexualization in Games
• Patently Worrisome In-Game Offers
• Podcast 53: The Qualities of Online Relationships (Rebroadcast)
• Loading: When We’re Willing to Wait
• Podcast 52: Being Indistractable
• Marvel Games and Spatial Presence
• Podcast 51: Lost in a Good Game
• What the Heck are Surprise Mechanics?
• How Much Screen Time Is Bad for Kids?
• Podcast 50: Moral Choices in Games vs. Other Media
• Come See Me at PAX West 2019!
• Shared Mental Models Win Games
• The Psychology Of Fortnite’s Battle Pass
• Podcast 49: Empathy in Video Games
• Podcast 48: Loot Boxes, Part 2
• Five Recent Con Panels on the Psychology of Games
• Podcast 47: Loot Boxes and Gambling
• New Audio Book, Plus How to Appear in My Next Book
• Are MOBA Players Smarter Than You?
• Podcast 46: Collecting Virtual Items in Games
• Podcast 45: The Psychology of The Legend of Zelda
• Apex Fish in a Small Pond
• Getting Gamers: Now in Paperback
• Podcast 44: Gamification and Video Games as Employment Tests
• How Video Games Do Feedback Well (and Poorly)
• Podcast 43: Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology
• You Screwed Up: The Value of Errors in Game Tutorials
• Podcast 42: Tracking Our Mobile Game Affinities
• Podcast 41: How Video Games Prepare You For Success
• Podcast 40: Our Avatar Relationships
• Nudging Moral Choices in Games
• Podcast 39: Thirty Questions About the Psychology & Games
• The Focusing Illusion and Overwatch
• Podcast 38: Mental Health Professionals and Video Games
• Come See Me at PAX West!
• Fortnite’s Success Is Due to Random Chance
• Podcast 37: Cognitive Psychology and User Experience
• Boosting the Credibility of Steam’s Discovery Queue …With Psychology!
• Podcast 36: Psychology, Escape Rooms, and VR
• The Pleasure Paradox of Big Buffs
• Podcast 35: Player Empathy and Drivers of Game Preference
• Podcast 34: Game Design Education and Psychology 101
• Tess Teaches Psychology and Destiny 2
• Podcast 33: Using Games to Develop Mental Skills
• Using Psychology and Loot Boxes to Destroy Video Games: A Fun and Practical Guide
• Podcast 32: Twelve More Months of the Psychology of Games Posts
• Using Psychology to Design Leveling Systems
• Podcast 31: Harassment in Video Games
• Don’t Do Your Best: Goal Setting and Horizon:Zero Dawn
• Podcast 30: Gaming Addiction
• Synchronization and Unifying Players
• Why Do People Play Jobs?
• Podcast 29: Morality and Moral Choices in Video Games
• Compared to Other Heroes of the Storm…
• Podcast 28: How We See Our In-Game Avatars
• Why We Love to Hate Negative Reviews
• Podcast 27: Collecting Things in Video Games
• Carrying the Responsibility Bias for the Team
• Podcast 26: Moral Combat on Violent Video Games
• Why Being a Better Gamer Can Help You Be a Better Person
• Podcast 25: A Parent’s Guide to The Psychology of Video Games
• A Blizzard of Procedural Justice
• Podcast 24: Using Video Games for Therapy
• The Consistency of Automatic Helping in Games
• Podcast 23: Self Determination Theory and Why We Play Games
• Zeigarnik Effect and Quest Logs
• Deliberate Practice and Getting Good
• Overwatch Overjustification
• Podcast 22: Research on Games, Aggression, and Addiction
• 30 Questions About Games Psychologists Should Answer
• Do Non-Player Characters Count as an “Audience”?
• Podcast 21: Achievements and Motivation
• The Overjustification Effect and Game Achievements
• Podcast 20: 12 Months of Psychology of Games Posts
• The Near Miss Effect and Game Rewards
• What Do You Want to Know About the Psychology of Video Games?
• Podcast 19: Habit Forming Games
• Twitching, Cheering, and Dirty Laundry
• Podcast 18: Biofeedback and Video Game Design
• Why Do Achievements, Trophies, and Badges Work?
• Podcast 17: Gaming Psychology and Learning
• Dark Souls and Gitting into a Gud Mindset
• Podcast 16: The Qualities of Online Relationships
• Kisses, Anticipation, and the Lost Art of Identifying
• Podcast 15: Simulation Sickness and Virtual Reality
• Psychology and Video Game Product Engagement Presentation
• Kill Cam Kudos and Overwatch
• Support Psychology of Games on Patreon
• Podcast 14: Why People Play Games
• Favorite Sentences from My Book
• Four More GDC Presentations About Psychology and Video Games
• Podcast 13: Stress, Games, and Recovery
• Learned Helplessness and Halo 5
• Podcast 12: Video Game Violence
• Newtonian Engagement and Metal Gear Solid V
• Podcast 11: Video Games and Our Health
• The Steam Winter Sale is Too Much Sale
• Podcast 10: Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
• Reason Based Choice and the Golden Path
• Podcast 9: How Do Games Differ From Other Media?
• The Psychology of Horror Games
• A Wii Little Fluency Effect
• Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games Book
• Podcast 8: Envy and Microtransactions
• The Kuleshov Effect: Is Batman Hungry?
• Podcast 7: The State of Video Game Debates
• Shenmue 3 Kickstarter and the Affect Heuristic
• Podcast 6: Using Psychology to Craft User Experiences
• When the Pay to Win Button Backfires
• Podcast 5: Building Better AI Through Psychology
• Free Money, Grocery Bags, and Smarter Than You
• Podcast 4: Toxic Behavior
• Why Did the Mass Effect 3 Ending Ruin The Whole Series?
• Podcast 3: Psychological Flow
• Support Psychology of Games on Patreon
• Why We Hate (Some) Motion Controls
• Podcast 2: Big Data and Becoming a Video Game Psychologist
• Three GDC 15 Talks on Psychology and Video Games
• Psychology and Video Game Kickstarters
• Podcast 1: Rage Quitting, Frustration and Aggression
• Hand over $4.99 or Spider-Man Gets It
• Red vs. Blue: Which Should You Choose?
• Psychology & Loot in Edge #276
• Book Update: Call for Info
• Psychology of High Scores, Leaderboards, & Competition
• The Psychology of Destiny’s Loot Systems
• Cheap Beer and the Psychology of PlayStation Now Pricing
• Three Books on the Psychology of Video Games
• Frustration vs. Video Game Violence in Real-Life Aggression
• When Marketing to Gamers Backfires
• Thomas’s Dark Soul Is Alone
• The Psychology of Video Games: The Book Is Coming!
• Why We Love Ellie From The Last of Us
• You Can Cheat, But Don’t Be a Cheater
• Twitching and Choking: The Audience Effect in Games
• Fake Feels and Free Passes
• 50-Something Gaming Academics on Twitter
• The Psychology of Video Game Avatars
• How Not to Compare the Xbox One and PS4
• The Psychology of Video Game Nostalgia
• Saucy Necromancers And the Psychology of Self-Perception
• Less Humble Bundles Are More
• Why You Don’t Burn Out on Candy Crush Saga
• Why Do Color Coded Clues in Level Design Work?
• Does Respeccing Your Character in Diablo 3 Make You Happy?
• Why Gone Home Is So Immersive
• The You Are Not So Smart Podcast: Video Game Edition
• It’s Not So Bad: Cognitive Dissonance and Cheap Games
• A Blind Gorilla with a Fez Walks Up to a Border Checkpoint…
• The Psychology Behind Steam’s Summer Sale
• Can The Xbox One’s Kinect Read Your Mind?
• I’m Writing a Book. You Can Help.
• The Left-Digit Effect: Why Game Prices End in .99
• Articles for Edge Magazine Online
• A Tale of Two Talent Trees
• The Uncanny Valley and Character Design
• The Availability Heuristic is Always On
• The Psychological Appeal of Violent Shooters
• Heuristics, Ho!
• The Zeigarnik Effect and Quest Logs
• Modifying Player Behavior in League of Legends With Honor
• The Walking Dead, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
• How Game Tutorials Can Strangle Player Creativity
• Creativity, Puzzle Games, and Brain Damage
• Competition, Cooperation, and Play
• The Psychology of High Scores in Edge Magazine
• Trials Evolution, Social Comparisons, and Second Place
• Seven Psychological Sins of SimCity Social
• The Psychology of Game Nostalgia in Edge Magazine #242
• Some stuff lost in a restoration…
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 4 Historical Items
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 3 Dopamine Binds On Pickup
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 2 Availability Heuristic and Loot Drops
• The Psychology of Diablo III Loot Part 1: Anchoring the Auction House
• The Psychology of Genres in Edge Magazine #241
• Draw Something Uncertain
• The Psychology of Avatars in Edge Magazine
• Needs and Gratification Theory and Game Genres
• The Psychology of Free-to-Play Games in Edge Magazine
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Multiplayer Games
• Two Lessons From Team Fortress 2
• Self-Perception Theory and Marketing through Avatars
• Ideal Self Image and Game Choice
• I Did a Podcast!
• The Psychology of Child’s Play
• Thoughts on Immersion in Skyrim
• Burnout, Crunch, and the Games You Play
• Benign Envy and The Psychology of Tiny Tower
• Netflix, GameFly, and Predicting the Future
• The Psychology of Fair Play
• The Psychology of Microsoft Points Part 2: Conversion Factors
• The Psychology of Microsoft Points Part 1: Waste Aversion
• Situational Judgment Tests as RPGs
• The Psychology of Loot
• Just World Hypothesis and Homefront
• The Psychology of Immersion
• The Unit Effect and Player Perceptions
• Book Review: Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
• The Psychological Weight of History
• Procedural Justice and Nerfing
• Freezing Your Decision-Making Synapses
• The Psychology of Fear in Video Games
• The Psychology of Game of the Year Debates
• The Psychology of Shooters (Online)
• Steamed Endowed Progress a la carte
• Kinecting With Your Emotions
• Why We Get Nostalgic About Good Old Games
• Endowed Progress Effect and Game Quests
• The Psychology of Horror
• Conceptual Consumption and Kicks to the Head
• The Psychology of Anonymity
• The Charitable Status Halo Quo
• Motion Controls and Presence
• The Psychology of Apology (and Hugs)
• Priming, Consistency, Cheating, and Being a Jerk
• The Psychology of Shooters
• Gaming for Mondays
• Jam and Game Reviews
• Gamer Dreams
• Psychology of Games: Now Appearing in GamePro Magazine
• The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games
• Psychological Reactance and Bioware Games
• Hedonic Adaptation and Game Reviews
• Anonymity and Blizzard Forums
• Loss Aversion and the Crackdown 2 Demo
• The Psychology of Games Reading List
• The Psychology of Sony’s Playstation Move Announcement
• APB: All Points Bulletin or Aggregated Payment Bias? Both.
• Deindividuation + Character Creator = Stab Them in the Face
• Three Reasons Why We Buy Those Crazy Steam Bundles
• Login 2010 Lecture Slides
• Irrational Games on The Psychology of Fear
• Closed Betas and Group Culture
• The Power of You. No, Wait, Others. I Meant The Power of Others
• Come See Me Lecture at the Login 2010 Conference
• Et Cetera April 2010
• To Sleep, Perchance to Pwn
• The Status Quo Effect (Or, Pay Without Play)
• Zerg Rushed by a Tiger? Just give up.
• Regression to the Mean and Owning Some Chumps
• Xbox Game Room’s Dummy Pricing (Not for Dummies)
• Framing and World of Warcraft’s Rest System
• Et Cetera, March 2010
• Picking Your Guildies: The Role of Attraction, Selection, and Attrition
• The Glitcher’s Dilemma: Social Dilemmas in Games
• Why Do We Love Genres So Much?
• Anonymity and Antisocial Behavior
• Fun is Had When Your Time Flies
• The Endowment Effect and Used Game Sales
• Et Cetera, February 2010
• Psychological Flow and Fake Plastic Rock
• DJ Jazzy Contrast – The Contrast Effect and DJ Hero Renegade
• Conan the Loss Averse Barbarian
• How Reciprocity Yields Bumper Crops in Farmville
• Bayonetta: Witches With Halos
• How Social Identity Theory Predicted the Console Wars of ’07
• Fundamental Attribution Error and A Tale of Two Tigers
• Loss Aversion, Achievements, and Trial Conversions
• Duke Nukem Forever: Escalating Commitment and Chewing Bubblegum
• Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft
• Hot Hand Fallacy and Kill Streaks in Modern Warfare 2
• Red Rings and Research Methods
• Just One More Level: Decision Making Under Arousal
• Sunk Costs, Pre-Orders, and Game Over
• The Contrast Effect: The Cover Art of Borderlands
• Confirmatory Information Bias and Tony Hawk RIDE