Feedback magnitude dissociates in-game prosocial behavioral acquisition from real-world transfer: A computational reinforcement learning analysis
2026 · Current Psychology, 45(17), Article 1479.
Research
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Learning through feedback
Reward and punishment shape learning during play. Behavioral experiments test how this learning transfers to attention and social choices outside the game; reinforcement learning models distinguish changes in learning rate from changes in decision consistency.
Video game feedback learning and aggressive or prosocial effects
2025 · Social Science Computer Review, 43(4), 872-887.
Effects of reward and punishment in prosocial video games on attentional bias and prosocial behaviors
2022 · Computers in Human Behavior, 137, Article 107441.
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Cognition & decision-making
Gameplay engages attention and cognitive control. Behavioral tasks and computational models examine how these processes relate to later behavior, including changes in inhibition, cognitive demand, and risk-biased decisions.
When games influence words: Gaming addiction among college students increases verbal aggression through risk-biased drifting in decision-making
2024 · Behavioral Sciences, 14(8), Article 699.
The relationship between cognitive resource consumption during gameplay and postgame aggressive behaviors: Between-subjects experiment
2023 · JMIR Serious Games, 11, Article e48317.
Short-term touch-screen video game playing improves the inhibition ability
2021 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(13), Article 6884.
Adaptive assessment of the capacity of cognitive control
2022 · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(1), 43-52.
Social behavior & well-being
Experiments, longitudinal data, and network analysis examine the links between digital experiences, prosocial behavior, aggression, and mental health.
Short-term exposure to aggressive card game: Releasing emotion without escalating post-game aggression
2025 · Frontiers in Psychology, 16, Article 1505360.
Associations between cyberbullying victimization, inhibitory control, neural activation of error processing, and mental health problems in adolescents: A retrospective longitudinal study using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data
2026 · Journal of Medical Internet Research, 28, Article e75126.
Screen media use affects subcortical structures, resting-state functional connectivity, and mental health problems in early adolescence
2023 · Brain Sciences, 13, Article 1452.
Lower severity, denser network: Profile-specific symptom architecture in adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems
2026 · Behavioral Sciences, 16(9), Article 1643.