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#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is There Truth to the Violence of Midea Games?

The number of a people who play video games has sky rocketed. Yet, violent crime has gone down almost on the same curve. The one thing we know is that if you are ideating on a violent activity, say you're like a really disturbed individual, and you start to have fantasies of acting out, your phantasies are likely to be informed by whatever media you're consuming. And so you may act out what you've seen in a game. Ah, if you weren't a gamer, you might act out what youve seen in a movie. If somebody's not having a psychotic break, m it's not generally something that we need. But if i had some

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