Can video games teach people to be more empathetic? Designers and scholars say there are many complex challenges and limits in achieving such a goal.
“That Dragon, Cancer,” about a couple who lost their son to cancer and their grieving process, is used by the University of Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to help staff be more empathetic toward their patients.
as well as more activity in brain circuits related to empathy and emotions. Researchers surmised it was possible that games like Crystals can produce neural changes in fewer than six hours, at least inBut Farber, co-author of a 2017 working paper on “The Limits and strengths of using digital games as empathy machines,” said a misconception exists about empathy.
Empathy can arise not just for the characters in the game but also for the people with whom you’re playing. Schrier, who is also author of “,” studied the game “Way” several years ago in which people played anonymously and had to rely on one another to attain a goal. The game lasted only 20 minutes but by its end, she found the players were referring to one another as “my friends,” and saying things like, “We’re friends now.
She recalled playing the video game “Darfur Is Dying” about eight years ago, a game that won in 2006 the Darfur Digital Activist Contest, which was sponsored by a unit of MTV to create a video game that would also be an advocacy tool about the crisis in Western Sudan. Gray thought, that’s a bold claim.
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