How video games making minds great

How video games making minds great

There are many negative stereotypes about games and their players. It's true that focusing on games at the expense of everything else can have negative effects—and there's a good reason the World Health Organization has classified video game addiction as a mental health condition.

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However, video games aren't inherently negative. In the 50 years since Atari introduced Pong to the world, much research has been conducted on the effects of video games on our brains, and they're not all bad. Here are some of the potential benefits of gaming, according to research.

Improved Cognitive Skills

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A 2013 review published in the American Psychologist by Izabella Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, examined decades of research and highlighted the diverse benefits of gaming

Learning to Embrace Failure

Sometimes when I play games, I find my own failures absolutely delightful. Of course, this is partly because I tend to die in hilarious ways, but much of my pleasure comes from being able to try again. This anecdotal evidence is backed up by research; according to the American Psychologist's research review, video games can teach you to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.. . . 

It turns out this is psychologically healthy. After all, life is full of failures, and learning to embrace them as a challenge has many benefits. The review cites a 2013 study from Florida State University in which 100 college students were asked to solve anagrams. Self-described gamers were more willing to spend time on the more difficult puzzles than self-described non-gamers.