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013 - Stress, Games, and Recovery

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Role of Games in Recovery

One of the things that I hear a lot, you know, people talk about when you say like, well, why do you play games or maybe even specifically like, violent games? People will sometimes say they just let me get it all out of my system. They let me just have some sort of like feeling of getting it out there and sort of flushing it out of mySystem. Is there any evidence for this concept of catharsis, either in general in the literature or specifically in the context of recovery?

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