Little work that has investigated links between psychopathy and gaming has focused on elevated interest in playing violent games and not on behavior that manifests during social gaming.
We investigate psychopathy in gaming for representative avatar-mediated social gaming scenarios, such as commercially available desktop games and experimental games, up to instrumented social play in Virtual Reality. In this research, we investigate the emotional, motivational, cognitive, and psychophysiological aspects of psychopathy in games.
For a recent study published at CHI2022 see: