> The research also has wider repercussions on non-gaming online situations<p>Arrrgh. Why do this? This type of thing seems to be very common in articles/papers like this i.e. present a perfectly sensible summary of some experimental evidence. Then make some wild speculation as to its impact or cause. Then...nothing. No suggestion as to how one would follow this up, why it's related to the experiment other than superficially. Nothing.<p>You often seem to get this with behavioral studies where the study itself is interesting and sensible and then some stab in the dark as to what the evolutionary cause is. The End.<p>Winds me up especially as the meat of the article is quite interesting and informative.