- Malcolm McCullough -- Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
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- Mary Flanagan -- Critical Play: Radical Game Design
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evolutionary perspective(s)
- Robert Trivers -- The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
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- Keith Devlin -- The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
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- Keith Stanovich -- The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
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- Donald W. Pfaff -- The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
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psychological insight(s)
- Eric Berne -- Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relationships
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- Barry Schwartz -- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less -- amazon
- Timothy D. Wilson -- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
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- Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald -- Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are
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sociological observation(s)
- Erving Goffman -- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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- Erving Goffman -- Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior -- amazon
- P. L. Berger & T. Luckmann -- The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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mathematical model(s) -- reference(s)
- Thomas C. Schelling -- Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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- Per Bak -- how nature works: the science of self-organized criticality -- amazon
- Alexander Mehlmann -- The Game's Afoot! Game Theory in Myth and Paradox -- amazon
political issue(s)
- E.F. Schumacher -- Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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- Ivan Illich -- Deschooling Society (Open Forum)
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- Ivan Illich -- Tools for Conviviality
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- Jeffrey Sachs -- The Price of Civilization
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moral(s) matter(s)
- Jeremy Bentham -- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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- John Stuart Mill -- Utilitarianism
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- Joel J. Kupperman -- Theories of Human Nature
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- Barry Schwartz -- The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life
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- Sam Harris -- The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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- Stephen Davies (ed.) -- Art and Its Messages: Meaning, Morality, and Society
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(serious) game design(s) -- refeence(s)
- Aaron Dignan -- Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success
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- James Carse -- Finite and Infinite Games
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- Pat Kane -- The Play Ethic
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miscellaneous issue(s)
- Ruth W. Grant -- Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
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- Douglas Rushkoff -- Get Back in the Box
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- Cass R. Sunstein -- Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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