013 - Stress, Games, and Recovery
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Effects of Social Interactions on Recovery
A study looked at people who worked as air hostesses and they found that if they interacted socially with people after work, that actually increased levels of depression. So I wonder whether that's one of the reasons why potentially social interactions in games might be so effective just because you don't have that kind of exhaustion. And it makes me think of the research that was done on ego depletion,. You know, for any idea that we have this sort of internal well of mental juice or mental energy.
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