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Prosocial Media Linked With Empathy Across Cultures
Media and video games that portray cooperation and caring have a positive influence on behavior, a cross-cultural study shows.
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Can Gamers help protect flights and airports?
Fox News: It’s the holiday season, which means getting on a plane goes from merely annoying to infuriating. Do you ever wonder whether those never-ending delays in baggage screening actually make you safer? An airport
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Why Gamers Can’t Stop Playing First-Person Shooters
The New Yorker: In the fall of 1992, a twentysomething college dropout and former juvenile offender named John Carmack was hard at work in Mesquite, Texas, on a new concept for a video game. It
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You Call That Aggressive? Not Compared to ‘Grand Theft Auto’!
Pacific Standard: Early Tuesday morning, a Londoner bought one of the first available copies of the highly anticipated, just-released Grand Theft Auto V—and was mugged on his way home. While the K word (hint: It
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Multitasking After 60: Video Game Boosts Focus, Mental Agility
NPR: A brain that trains can stay in the fast lane. That’s the message of a showing that playing a brain training video game for a month can rejuvenate the multitasking abilities of people in
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A Multitasking Video Game Makes Old Brains Act Younger
The New York Times: There may be a new market for video games: octogenarians. Brain scientists have discovered that swerving around cars while simultaneously picking out road signs in a video game can improve the
