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Effects of computer games over children
While playing computer games is sometimes seen as asolitary pursuit, a study at Brigham Young Universityshows that it actually enhances social connections.Studying the effect of multiplayer online games onmarriages, researchers found that in the 76% of thecases where the couple played together, games actuallyaided the relationship. In other words, couples thatgamed together stayed together. Games may haveother effects on us too. The famous psychologist, PhilipZimbardo, recently spoke out on the subject. In his 1971Stanford Prison Experiment, in which volunteers wererandomly assigned the roles of prisoner or guard, heshowed that human behaviour is heavily influenced byenvironmental and social pressures. More recently,Zimbardo even suggested that exposing children tomorally ambiguous situations in games could be usefulin helping them develop their own moral compass. Onepossibility is to explore virtual worlds through computergames that could enable people to experience andunderstand concepts that they would otherwise finddifficult to imagine. Games about society, populated byreal people and open to all, could help test how differentcultural backgrounds could be brought together inpeace