From Super Mario to Sonic and Tetris to Tekken, video games have been a staple of popular culture for six decades. Could we use them to improve mental health?
As well as being immensely popular, video games have also often been associated with having harmful effects on our mental health, particularly with young people, but is this truly the case? Could video games in fact have a positive effect on our mental wellbeing and cognitive abilities and even have effective therapeutic uses?
In this virtual event as part of the Open Talk series, a panel of experts in the worlds of gaming and psychology discuss the fascinating connections between gaming and the mind and explore how video games may be able to boost our mental health.
Speakers include:
- Dr Kelli Dunlap—Clinical psychologist, game designer, and Community Director at Take This.
- Professor Peter Etchells—Professor of Psychology and Science Communication, Bath Spa University, and author of Lost in a Good Game – Why We Play Games and What They Can Do for Us.
- Dr Jane McGonigal—Game designer, inventor and co-founder of SuperBetter and best-selling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully.
- Dr Glyn Morgan (Chair)—Curator, Exhibitions, Science Museum.
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