Badges in Social Media: A Social Psychological Perspective

By Judd Antin, Elizabeth F. Churchill. 2011

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Rank And Response: A Field Experiment On Peer Information And Water Use Behavior (2017, methodology): “Households in the Team treatment group received an HWR with a cooperatively framed Team Challenge in the treatment area.”
Open badges for education: what are the implications at the intersection of open systems and badging? (2014, background): “The process of earning a badge is a form of feedback to an individual from the system, acting as a symbol of status to other users and affirmation from the system itself (Antin and Churchill 2011).”
Towards understanding the effects of individual gamification elements on intrinsic motivation and performance (2017, background): “…(Hamari et al., 2014; Seaborn & Fels, 2015), largely ignoring the underlying psychological mechanisms that may actually account for these effects (Antin & Churchill, 2011; Deterding, 2014), (but refer to Hanus & Fox, 2015; Lieberoth, 2015; Mekler, Brühlmann, Opwis, & Tuch, 2013b; for notable…”
The effect of virtual achievements on student engagement (2013, background): “Several of the achievements, such as those for attending a certain number of events on campus, served the “goal setting” role as described by Antin and Churchill [3].”
Steering user behavior with badges (2013, background): “[1] J. Antin and E. Churchill.”
Studying Gamification: The Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation (2015, background): “The interplay between status and afﬁ rmation highlights how badges can be engaging from either an individual or a group point of view (Antin & Churchill, 2011 ).”
The Lens of Intrinsic Skill Atoms: A Method for Gameful Design (2015, background): “As Antin and Churchill (2011) outlined, a simple design element like a badge can be functionalized for at least ﬁve different motivational processes (goal-setting, group belonging, etc.).”
Psychological Perspectives on Motivation through Gamification (2013, background): “- Badges function as a form of group identification by communicating shared experiences and activities [26] and thereby address people with a strong affiliation motive (cf.”