Welcome To Think Feel Play
This blog is all about the psychology in and around video games. Find out how gaming relates to attention, learning, personality, addiction, and more. The media distorts many of the facts. Here at Think Feel Play everything is based on the original research papers, but rewritten for the regular gamer. So ignore the media hype and distorted facts, and discover the real deal.Writing Stop till Summer
I have had to call a writing stop till summer. My studies have become too demanding for any heavy duty writing on the side. I do actively monitor the site, so feel free to leave comments. I am also keeping track of interesting ideas and topics. Feel free to leave suggestions!
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Video Game Violence is Irrelevant
Posted on June 1, 2010 | 18 CommentsWe should stop caring if video game violence makes people more violent in real life. I don’t say that to be callous or incite anarchy. It’s simply not worth the effort to find out. Two reasons why: There is no problem. There is no significant... -
Video Games to be the New Text Books?
Posted on May 30, 2010 | 8 CommentsTeenagers are not known for their passion for learning. Exceptions aside, most kids hitting puberty find anything vaguely educational to be boring by default. Of course hormones and body/brain development are partly to blame for this. But we’re not making it easy on them, now... -
The Good of Games
Posted on May 30, 2010 | 17 CommentsI love gaming. But I hate its image. People think it is a childish, nerdy, boring, socially-reclusive real-life-surrogate to act out aggressive power fantasies. Though they never phrase it that way … The truth is gaming has a lot to offer the mature, cool, interesting,...