Individual differences in Game Transfer Phenomena are associated with creativity and positive schizotypy but not with perceptual priming

In 85 video game players, Alternate Uses Task creativity scores are positively associated with Game Transfer Phenomena frequency, while individual differences in perceptual priming are not linked to it.

• Why it matters: Prior work tied GTP to IGD, positive schizotypy, and involuntary cognitions, but it was unclear whether implicit perceptual memory and creativity also explain individual differences.
• What they did: Participants completed a word fragment completion task to quantify perceptual implicit memory (group priming: M = .23, SD = .14), an Alternate Uses Task for divergent thinking, and a free association task for forward flow, alongside measures of IGD, daydreaming, and schizotypal traits.
• The result: Individual perceptual priming did not predict GTP frequency, whereas AUT scores did and uniquely contributed; a hierarchical regression explained 58.2% of GTP variance with IGD, daydreaming, positive schizotypy, hours per session, and AUT as strongest predictors.

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