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Self-Determination Theory, Part 1
Joe Hilgard Why do we play games? Recently, research has started to apply theories from motivation psychology to understand why people enjoy the games that they do. This is Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), and it is rapidly gaining … Continue reading
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