The truth about video games and anxiety
Since video games arrived on the scene, people have worried about their addictive nature.
But there’s a reason why they're so good at capturing our attention. Research from @ucriverside suggests that it can have major benefits for our mental health.
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Featuring: Kate Sweeny, Professor of Psychology, UC Riverside
🎮 Read more about this research at: https://www.universityofcalifornia.ed...
🧠 The research highlighted in this video was funded primarily by a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-1251672). @NSFScience
🤓 CITATIONS
A Better Distraction: Exploring the Benefits of Flow During Uncertain Waiting Periods: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?do...
Flow in the time of COVID-19: Findings from China: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
00:00 Intro
00:22 What is flow?
01:11 Kate's research study
01:47 Video games and good flow activities
02:29 The Tetris study results
03:21 The evolutionary purpose of worry
#anxiety #anxietytips #mentalhealth #science #flow #flowstate #videogames #tetris #ucr #ucriverside
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