Understanding Motivation in Games series focuses on investigating and understanding game motivation from the perspectives of various contemporary motivational theories. Game researchers seek to examine and explain the appeal and reasons for playing games by applying motivational theories to understand player experience and motivation in games. Contemporary motivational theories such as attribution theory, self-efficacy theory, expectancy-value theory, interest theory, goal-orientation theory and self-determination theory provide a theory-grounded approach for investigating the motivational affordance of games. Each of these contemporary theories will be examined individually.
4. Interest Theory
