psychology
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One Brave Reporter Went Inside America’s First Video Game Rehab Center
Video game addiction has never received an authoritative classification in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the American Psychological Association’s criteria-setting publication on all things related to mental illness. But that hasn’t stopped Americans — health-conscious and prone to cultural panic people that we are — from addressing it in other ways.…
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Gamers More Numb To Pain, Others’ Misery, Say Australian Scientists
I’m not sure what to make of this study, by researchers in Australia and Germany. On a literal level, RPG gamers are better than others at fishing paper clips out of a container of ice-cold water. Scientists think that means they’re desensitised either to pain or, going further, important life events, even.
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The Video Games That Showed Up When I Least Expected Them
A controller gets put down. A disc gets shelved next to dozens of others just like it. But, sometimes, the game lingers. It creeps into your sleep and live on in the backs of your eyelids, demanding ever more from you.
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A Fresh Look At The Video Game Time-Suck
You’re playing a game, moving from objective to objective, and suddenly you look over and… six hours have passed. Where did the time go?