Hey dear community, first of all I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day full of positive experiences and wish you a great start to the new week! In this post, I would like to comment on the human psyche and hope you can learn new things.
Video games have gained an important place and are nowadays widespread and an important part of everyday life for many people and have a diverse influence on the human psyche. The first video games were made in the middle of the 20th century and most of them are based on a point system and the goal is to achieve as many points as possible and the influence of gaming on the psyche depends entirely on the game and how much time you spend with it and there are some amazing results. Attaining of a certain level is usually awarded with rewards and in parallel there is a release of the happiness hormone dopamine in the brain, which is responsible for improving our mood and this can even improve general health and help against diseases such as depression and more. A frequent output of dopamine also influences the addiction memory and has the result that we come back to the game more often to experience these moments and as a result that the mood is so much improved you come back to the game to feel these moments again. The triggered emotions vary depending on the game and in games such as first-person shooters, the reflexes are improved and the emotional behavior is changed and the feeling is often blunted by regular playing of such games and the shown images can have a disturbing effect on the player and the intense experiences often take a longer time to be processed and the effect of video games always depends on the person and the duration of the playing time. Games where it comes to forging tactics as with strategy games train the analytical thinking and you train the ability to recognize complex patterns better and often it is also the case that we experience video games with other people and so there are interesting phenomena that are associated with mass psychology and the own behavior is influenced by others and leads to making other decisions than the individual would otherwise do.
Through the social contacts that you can make in games you greatly change the psyche and in games everyone can form their own world and people are not always as they would otherwise be and change the behavior completely and this can sometimes be considered positively as well as negatively and you often see that special young people form their own worlds in games. Studies have shown that people who often play train some parts of the brain and this can even lead to the ability to concentrate being improved and also the vision and cognitive abilities are improved. Especially in games in which the decision must be made quickly, an improvement in the performance of the brain is measurable and the sensory organs are also heavily influenced and learn to react faster over a certain period of time and because some scenarios usually have to be made in a few seconds, there is an irrational way of thinking and the pressure is higher to make the wrong decisions, which is often associated with symptoms such as stress when you make the wrong decision. Fear is also a factor in gaming and during the fear of not reaching a certain level, there is a changed pattern of behavior and you are more susceptible to certain scenarios and emotions triggered by the stimulus also influence future action and all the complex situations such as feelings that we experience during these moments are also associated with the subconscious and if you want to learn more about the connections with the subconscious, I can recommend this post here. It can definitely be said that video games are no longer a phenomenon and have been strongly anchored in our society and there are numerous positive as well as negative qualities and the effect always depends on the person and there are numerous influencers how the gaming experience can influence people and it is interesting to look at gaming from the psychological perspective.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read through my post and I hope you like it and can learn something new about this interesting topic!