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spir-8498	Banks, Jaime; Bowman, Nicholas David	Close intimate playthings? Understanding player-avatar relationships as a function of attachment, agency, and intimacy	2013.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1947	100	42	Work has attempted to explain the relationship by focusing on the technologies of social presence, the socio-emotional relationship between players and avatars as distinct social others, the capability of players to adopt the personae of their avatars, and the psychological merging of player and avatar as a unified person. Banks (2013) suggested these two dimensions coalesce, with lower intimacy associated with player agency and higher intimacy associated with avatar agency.	cache/spir-8498.pdf	txt/spir-8498.txt