Video games can affect cortisol levels
(Visited 8085 times) Game talk
Nov 012007
More evidence that video games can control your braaaiiinss. In a good way.
Basically, a comaprison study between two groups. One group played a game which made them click on smiley faces among frowns, and the other didn’t have the smiley faces in their game.
At the end of the study, the folks who clicked on smiley faces had lower cortisol levels. Less stress.
The result was actually the creation of a new company, Mindhabits, to commercialize this. Very cool. 🙂
So, if the f13 people played more games with fluffy bunnies, would they be less cynical and bitter?*
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*Not that I want to change them. I like them this way. 🙂
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I’d like to see more games like Overlord. It had the uplifting tone of watching fluffy bunnies but the gameplay of brutally smashing killer rabbits. =)
Games can be mature without being dreary.
Why would you think the “f13 people” would ever do either? Do I qualify as an F13 people because I post there? Which, oops means you probably are an F13 people too Raph…LOL Besides, you devs need cynical and bitter because all fluffy bunnies get run over by derailed trains, or eaten by the predators lurking around.
Yah, until they’re inside your game wrecking up the place with negativity.
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What is this F13 you speak of? Besides, the game-wrecking negatards are all busy playing CS, TF2 or WoW.
HEH, No, they would not.
Well, considering he’s never booted me from these forums I’d say he doesn’t mind people being negative. Or pompous. 😉
A bit of negativity, or even cynicism and bitterness, keeps things mixed up a bit. Forestalls groupthink, keeps the debate going.
And I’m not sure I agree with Aaron about games being mature without being dreary… there’s a certain amount of dreariness (Office Space style, not slasher flick style) you have to put up with IRL that you have to get used to, to mature.
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