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Research Paper on Dead by Daylight
Hello everybody,
I am studying psychology in Berlin and am currently writing my final thesis, the subject being Dead by Daylight. I aim to understand whether - and to which degree - certain personality factors (such as extraversion, and agreeableness), gender and the tendency to show altruistic behaviour influence a player's role preference; namely, killer or survivor, as well as the choice of character.
Participation is completely voluntary and anonymous, and you have the opportunity to enter a draft for one of two 20$ steam gift cards.
As an enthusiastic player of this game myself since 2016, this is a project very close to my heart. I would immensely appreciate your participation.
Warm regards,
Nathalie
Link to the survey: https://ww3.unipark.de/uc/deadbydaylight/
Filling out the survey takes about 15-25 minutes. I appreciate you taking the time!
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Just left my survey answers 😃
I think this a super interesting idea and I am glad that the psychology behind certain video game mechanics is being studied (being a psychology student myself).
Good luck with your thesis!
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Seems like an interesting study! I always find it fascinating and interesting when "traditional" fields take a look at something related to gaming, stuff like your study when it comes to psychology, or someone in the economic field taking a look at in-game economies and the like.
I answered the survey and I wish you the best of luck with your paper 🙂
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Thank you very much! :) There is a rather recent study with a pretty similar research question, but focusing on Overwatch; The Relationship Between Video Game Character Preferences and Aggressive and Prosocial Personality Traits by Martin Delhove and Tobias Greitemeyer University of Innsbruck - if you fancy a read :)
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Thank you for taking the time, I know its not the shortest of surveys! Thank you very much. I agree with you, with video games being such a big part of the lives of so many, there is so much to discover. Not just in terms of serving the "video games are bad" narrative, but in terms of gaining a profound and nuanced understanding of the uniqueness of purpose a video game might serve as for each individual.
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got to 50%, got myself another coffee, tried to continue and started all over again (time out)
Well, guess I'll have to do this again :D
Good luck on your studies! I'm interested in ur results, are you going to post them here as well?
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Thank you for giving it some of you time! (getting coffee is no doubt a priority though) - the plan is to present the results in a visually more appealing and understandable form than SPSS outputs!
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Finished the servey and found it quite interesting and it even made me have to think about myself for a while on some of the questions.
Good luck with your thesis Nathalie 😊
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Very interesting idea! I was actually going to use dbd for an altruism experiment for my bio mode at the beginning of the year to investigate influences on reciprocal altruism etc but it was only for one sf lab report, the word count was too low to explain the experiment well and it was a pair project with a friend who doesnt play dbd so I just couldn't, looking forward to seeing your results!
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Will you post the results here? Or a summary
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Thank you very much! I'm glad to hear that.
Thanks! A mountain of work ahead but it's quite the adventure.
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Thank you, I'm curious whether I'll find some evidence of value. Your experiment sounds very intruiging!
I will post the results after data analysis, that should happen around june/july.
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I will! I have to ask for a but of patience, however. I will try to present the results in a visually more appealing and understandable way than SPSS tables :)
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As someone who just graduated with a Bachelors, early congratulations on being done!
I have also contributed Nurse main data, the best there is.
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And late congratulations from me on already being done!
Thank you very much for that!
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I'd love to help! I'm actually doing a research project myself on social dynamics in Dead by Daylight at the moment - though I'm a designer, not a psychologist - so I absolutely get the fascination from an academic standpoint. Best of luck with your thesis!
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Wow, it would be interesting to hear more about that! With designer you mean game designer?
Thank you very much! I appreciate you taking the time.
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It was a very interesting survey, I had fun doing it 😊 And no, I'm actually a graphic designer, but design practice does overlap a lot between disciplines, because the process and the way of thinking is very similar in many of ways.
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Ok, I see. Thanks for clarifying! Ah, I'm glad to hear it! I did multiple testruns in advance and sometimes caught myself thinking about some questions for the millionth time ;)
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Sounds cool, I'm in. Just submitted my results. Would love to see how it turns out. Keep us posted!
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Submitted mine there now. Hope it goes well mate 👍
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I see that you asked the personality type questions before going into the theme. Good idea there.
It's always hard for me to chose if I like killer or survivor more... I play 50-50 and it fluctuates.
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Hope the project goes well! I'm interested to see the final result. My hypothesis is that the more proud and confident players tend to lean towards the killer role because of its lack of reliance on others. I don't expect gender or age to have much to do with anything, but I may be wrong.
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Don't worry, I do that all the time! Overthinking everything is one of my special talents 😋
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My Honours project? No, I'm only halfway through it. I may share it on the forums when I'm done for anyone who's interested in that kind of thing, assuming that (a) the content isn't too inflammatory, and (b) I can find a way to do so without compromising my privacy, since I'd rather not make my real identity public on the forums (there are some scary people out there).
If you mean the Rift survey, the answer is still no unfortunately, although I promise I'm still working on it. It was just a lot more work than expected, and progress has been halted for the last couple of months on account of said Honours project 😅
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Please post your results here when you have them. Please ping me as well, I really don't want to miss this.
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Good survey, wish you luck
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I filled it out. Good luck on your paper
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Will we ever get to see the results. Im really curious
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Interested to see it. I love studies like these. Hopefully you find something interesting in there.
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The survey was interesting and fun. I honestly like completing em. If you have more, please let me know!!
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Why do you have only 6 posts? (At least on my screen)
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It's the same for me, probably a forum bug.
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I am participating in this research paper as I am a learner of psychology and bouts of human mental states.
Other than that , I love helping people.
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Bit annoying that there wasn't really an option for BOTH/NEITHER preference on side, since I play both. If you can work out which survey data was mine, I did pick Survivor and the 3 I selected are Claudette, Yui and Kate.
For killers, I play Pig, Doctor and Legion.
Preference in playstyles could also add to the opinion of types of people drawn to the game. I prefer the stealth playstyle, rather than a confrontational runner or chase killer.
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Survey complete. Good luck on your paper.
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Was kinda long
And I feel like nothing related to dead by daylight...
i hope my answers didn't mess ur data up too much since my condition
Good luck with your paper tho
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Good luck on your paper :)
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Well do tell the rest I'm curious what they would be.
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As a Pig main thats the number of unsuccessful Ambush Dashes @Almo has had this year.
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Thank you, much appreciated. Data analysis should be done around mid-july. I will find a good way to publish the findings.
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Hey Almo, I will. That will probably happen around mid- to end july. I will try to arrange the results in an understandable way for everybody.
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Thank you, I'm glad to hear that! Thank you for taking the time.
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Thank you very much! I appreciate your help a lot, thank you for participating!
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I'm sorry you weren't able to choose that option; unfortunately that's not part of the hypotheses. But thank you very much for investing your time and participating. I appreciate it a lot!
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Thank you & thank you! Very much appreciated.
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Thank you for taking your time to complete the survey!
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Thanks, it's quite the adventure!
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Damn that was a good survey.
Good luck further :)
Greetings from the northeastern Part or germany :D
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Hey, well thank you! That put a smile on my face. Thanks! :)
Haha, greetings from Berlin!
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