Give me a reason to dig Minecraft and psychology of motivation

Recently both game industry professionals and academic researchers have started focusing on player-generated behavioral data as a mean to gather insights on player psychology through datamining. Although some research has already proven solid correlations between in-game behavior and personality, most techniques focus on extracting knowledge from in-game behavior data alone. This paper posits that triangulating exclusively behavioral datasets with established theoretical frameworks serving as hermeneutic grids, may help extracting additional meaning and information. The hermeneutic grid selected for this study is the Reiss Motivation Profiler and it is applied to behavioral data gathered from Minecraft players.

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