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Figueiredo, Rui; Paiva, Ana

doi:10.1145/2071423.2071468

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“…While this allowed us to test a variety of risk-taking behaviours (e.g., alcohol consumption, dangerous games, drunk driving), we do not have data on how interactive novel perform in other contexts. To our knowledge, interactive novels have only been used in a few other field of research: reciprocity (Figueiredo & Paiva, 2011), persuasion (Figueiredo & Paiva, 2010) and choices in relationship (Turan & Vicary, 2010;Vicary & Fraley, 2007). None of these other studies has focused on risk-taking, however we believe that interactive novels could be tailored to study many contexts with the same success (e.g., risky driving, financial risk-taking, health risk).…”

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Choose your own risks: measuring risk-taking through an interactive novel

Bran¹,

Dcf²

2019

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We present elements that support the use of interactive novels as a relevant risk-taking measure instrument. In the introduction, we describe what interactive novels are and how they can be used to study human decision making. Then, we present the results of a study designed to assess how behaviours made in interactive novels relate to real-life behaviours. Participants (n = 234) interacted with a novel depicting a student party. During the story, participants could make several risk-taking behaviours (i.e., drug taking). Then, participants completed the Dohmen’s one item risk-taking scale, the DOSPERT scale, and a self-report risk-taking scale. Our results show strong correlations between risk-taking in the interactive novel and real life risk-taking behaviours. Notably, risk-taking behaviours made in the novel were globally more correlated with real-life risk-taking than were the Dohmen and DOSPERT scales. This supports the use of interactive novels as an instrument to study risk-taking behaviours and decision making.

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