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Video: Playing with Video Gamers' Emotions
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Dr. Simon Moore
If you're planning on giving your kid a video game you may find this video (3min 34sec) interesting. Playing with Video Gamers' Emotions. At this event at the Dana Centre in London, England, psychologists, game designers and video game enthusiasts came together to explore how video games affect our bodies.
So, what is happening exactly physiologically when we play a thrill packed video game? Dr. Simon Moore, Psychologist, London Metropolitan University: Your heart rate is going to be involved. You have something that called Galvanic Skin Response which is very much indicative of you sympathetic nervous system - so that's the system that gets you ready for 'fight or flight'...
Games that have graphics that are very realistic, what you'll find is that viewers that don't have very good imaginations from a visual point of view will find those games more engaging. Whereas games that are more 'cartoony', fictitious looking in their graphics, what you'll find is that people who have good imaginations they're going to engage with them more because they have the tools to almost translate those fictitious images into a potential real life situation...
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