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• Dr. Jamie Madigan spreads awareness of what psychology can tell us about video games.
• How psychology plays a role in designing video games.
• How a study about memory explains the “one . . . more . . . turn . . . ” phenomenon
• How the psychology of arousal might explain why you play games through the night.

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• The Psychology of Video Games Website
• Dr. Madigan’s Book: Getting Gamers

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About +7 Intelligence

+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.

Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• Zhenghua Yang tells how video games helped him through a truly frightening part of his life – and now he creates them to bring meaning to people.
• Z talks about his first video game created at the age of 10, and now, his studio: Serenity Forge.
• 5 areas where video games are transforming the future.
• The diverse ways that video games can bring meaning

Links

• Serenity Forge
• Z’s TEDx Talk: Video Games Saved my Life and How They Will Save Yours
• Mystic Melee
• Gone Home
• Luna’s Wandering Stars

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.

Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• In this BONUS episode, a gamer gets help from the community to deal with an unexpected phobia.

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• The Reddit post that inspired this episode
• The Games Without Butterflies spreadsheet

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• How video games can be used in mental health counseling
• Josué Cardona is a mental health counselor who founded Geek Therapy – a site and podcast network devoted to exploring how geek culture can be used in therapy
• Josué talks about how his initial attempt to use video games in therapy had some setbacks
• Josué plays games with his clients in order to connect with them
• Josué helps his clients create games using Twine in order to break down and navigate difficult situations
• Josué talks about how he prescribes video games
• We talk about how what we learn from video games is transferrable to real life
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Links

• Geek Therapy (LINK)
• Headshots Podcast (LINK)
• Twine (LINK)
• SuperBetter (LINK)

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• My guest today flips common stereotypes about games on their head.
• Paul Darvasi investigates how video games can  foster world peace.
• What video games can do that no other medium can
• How video games can promote peace education
• How video games can be used for conflict resolution
• How to turn your classroom into a video game
• How video games can be used in a classroom to teach history
• How video games can serve as inspiration for immersive experience games to teach literature in a totally different way
• How video games have influenced Paul’s life

Links

• Ludic Learning (LINK)
• Paul’s working paper about video games for UNESCO (LINK)

Games Mentioned

• Hush (LINK)
• 1979: Revolution Black Friday (LINK)
• Depression Quest (LINK)
• Rome II : Total War (LINK)

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• Andrew Reinhard is a videogame archaeologist
• Somehow that is a real thing.
• We talk about his site Archaeogaming
• He talks about the infamous E.T. Atari cartridge excavation – the first video game excavation in history
• The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey (NMSAS)
• We talk about the Prime Directive and the ethics of investigating video games as archaeology

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• Archaeogaming (LINK)
• NMSAS (LINK)
• Follow Andrew Reinhard on Twitter (LINK)

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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About +7 Intelligence

+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.

Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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