Episode 7: Gaming and Social Skills - Oxymoron? Or The Perfect Match?
Git Gud
English - January 05, 2022 19:36 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBGames Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Have you ever wondered if the video games we play are actually hurting our ability to make friends? Or communicate with other people? Or form relationships? In today's episode, we'll talk about the good, bad, and research surrounding what video games can do to our personalities and abilities to develop social skills.
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Here are the links to today's sources:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/02/video-game
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01731/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905509/
https://levelskip.com/community/The-Many-Social-Benefits-of-Playing-Video-Games