Bilgiler > Effects of computer games over children
Effects of computer games over children
While playing computer games is sometimes seen as a
solitary pursuit, a study at Brigham Young University
shows that it actually enhances social connections.
Studying the effect of multiplayer online games on
marriages, researchers found that in the 76% of the
cases where the couple played together, games actually
aided the relationship. In other words, couples that
gamed together stayed together. Games may have
other effects on us too. The famous psychologist, Philip
Zimbardo, recently spoke out on the subject. In his 1971
Stanford Prison Experiment, in which volunteers were
randomly assigned the roles of prisoner or guard, he
showed that human behaviour is heavily influenced by
environmental and social pressures. More recently,
Zimbardo even suggested that exposing children to
morally ambiguous situations in games could be useful
in helping them develop their own moral compass. One
possibility is to explore virtual worlds through computer
games that could enable people to experience and
understand concepts that they would otherwise find
difficult to imagine. Games about society, populated by
real people and open to all, could help test how different
cultural backgrounds could be brought together in
peace