Humans NEED to Play Video Games
For real? Sweet! I wonder if we’ll see people at work using doctors notes to justify gaming at their desks…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Playing video games can satisfy deep psychological needs and, at least in the short term, improve people’s well-being, new research shows.
The more a game fulfilled a player’s sense of independence, achievement and connectedness to others, the more likely he or she was to keep playing, Dr. Scott Rigby of Immersyve, a Florida-based virtual environment think tank, and colleagues from the University of Rochester in New York found. And the more fully a player’s needs were satisfied, the better he felt after playing.
Source: Scientific American
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