Popular Science: Viewing "gender distinction" from online games

Xinhua London, February 7 (reporter Liu Shilei) in a new issue of the British Science report published in a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8503.html "> Research report shows that when playing online games, The way men and women play the game, the personality characteristics are very different.

Researchers at the Vienna Medical University in Austria surveyed the situation of a 300,000-player online game in which players "survive" in future virtual spaces, making friends, manufacturing, trading, and war activities.

The researchers found that female players outperformed men in economic activity, were better at avoiding risks, and were more likely to trade with other characters and make friends. Male gamers are more likely to associate with "better" minority roles.

The survey also found that men who responded to female roles more quickly than women who responded to a male dating request, but were hesitant to take "retaliatory action" in the face of hostile action by women.

Although the extent to which the virtual world can reflect the reality of human society needs to be further validated, the new study suggests that it would be helpful to analyze the behavior of people in multiplayer online games if they were to conduct research on the more closed social networks, the researchers said.