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ArticlePloS one2019

Faithfulness-boost effect: Loyal teammate selection correlates with skill acquisition improvement in online games.

Gustavo Landfried, Diego Fernández Slezak, Esteban Mocskos

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Popularity of Video Games and Collective Memory.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gustavo LandfriedUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Computación, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Diego Fernández SlezakUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Computación, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-6348-1559
Esteban MocskosUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Computación, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-6473-7672
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · AR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The problem of skill acquisition is ubiquitous and fundamental to life. Most tasks in modern society involve the cooperation with other subjects. Notwithstanding its fundamental importance, teammate selection is commonly overlooked when studying learning. We exploit the virtually infinite repository of human behavior available in Internet to study a relevant topic in anthropological science: how grouping strategies may affect learning. We analyze the impact of team play strategies in skill acquisition using a turn-based game where players can participate individually or in teams. We unveil a subtle but strong effect in skill acquisition based on the way teams are formed and maintained during time. "Faithfulness-boost effect" provides a skill boost during the first games that would only be acquired after thousands of games. The tendency to play games in teams is associated with a long-run skill improvement while playing loyally with the same teammate significantly accelerates short-run skill acquisition.

Indexed as

Social SkillsGames, RecreationalHumansInterpersonal RelationsLearningPsychomotor PerformanceVideo Games

Identifiers

PMID30835750
PMCPMC6400383
OpenAlexW2919146407

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