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96: Jane McGonigal | Gaming Your Way to Health and Happiness

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Effects of Gaming on Relationships

When we play a game with somebody else, especially if we're in the same physical environment. Your heart rates converge on the same beats per minute. Posture will start to mirror each other. If you hook people up, you'll see very similar electrical patterns. And this is interesting for two reasons. You don't know that you've observed it, but your brain is constantly at a subconscious level looking at other people's... I mean, you are observing somebody's chest for how they're breathing. It just builds such a positive foundation. When you're gaming, you start building up all these positive beliefs about the other person. They're like me because our bodies and brains are doing the

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