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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 17 Oct 12 - No Cached

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached

What is it about games that is transcendent? Perhaps it’s the fact that games are optional, they are obstacles that we volunteer to overcome. Games are what we choose to do. They are what we are drawn to when we have a choice about how to spend our time and energy.  Games are freedom.
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There is something transcendent about playing games that lifts us up and out of the tedium and pain of everyday life.
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When we ask “Are games good for us?” we should take more seriously the idea that games helps us feel better, in the moment, and that this is important work. Reducing the time we spend experiencing negative emotions and increasing the time we spend experiencing positive emotions is a fundamental good in and of itself. Even if games don’t change anything else in our lives, the power to change how we feel in the moment is a very good thing indeed.
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Parents who spend more time playing games with their kids have better relationships with them
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improve children’s ability to manage difficult emotions
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Children who spend more time playing videogames score higher on tests of creativity.
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Gamers of all ages perform better than non-gamers on tests of attention, speed, accuracy, and multi-tasking.
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Scientists have found a wide variety of cognitive, emotional and social benefits to gaming
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Is gameplay good for us?
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