Socio-psychological perspectives on the potential for serious games to promote transcendental values in IWRM decision-making

D Marini, W Medema, J Adamowski, SPL Veissière… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Modern day challenges of water resource management involve difficult decision-making in
the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty. However, even if all decision-makers …

Interactive narratives affecting social change

ST Steinemann, GH Iten, K Opwis… - Journal of Media …, 2017 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Interactive narratives offer interesting opportunities for the study of the impact of media on
behavior. A growing amount of research on games advocating social change, including …

Can video games change attitudes towards history? Results from a laboratory experiment measuring short‐and long‐term effects

L Kolek, V Šisler, P Martinková… - Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates a video game's effects on implicit and explicit attitudes towards
depicted historical events in the short‐and long‐term on a sample of 148 young adults. We …

Game perspective-taking effects on players' behavioral intention, attitudes, subjective norms, and self-efficacy to help immigrants: the case of “papers, please”

J Peña, JF Hernández Pérez, S Khan… - … , Behavior, and Social …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
This study expands on game character perspective-taking effects on political opinions while
controlling for players' social dominance orientation or inclination for inequality among …

[HTML][HTML] Video games and attitude change: A meta-analysis

L Kolek, I Ropovik, V Šisler, H van Oostendorp… - Contemporary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Video games are increasingly portraying many topics that we face in our everyday lives. Yet
we have only limited evidence about the way narrative games affect how we think about the …

Is video games' effect on attitudes universal? Results from an empirical study comparing video games' impact on the attitude change of players with different …

L Kolek, P Martinková, M Vařejková… - Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Existing studies confirm that some video games can change players' attitudes.
However, since we do not know the specific elements responsible for attitude change, the …

A social neuroscience approach to conflict resolution: dialogue intervention to Israeli and Palestinian youth impacts oxytocin and empathy

M Influs, M Pratt, S Masalha… - Social …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid increase in terror-related activities, shift of battlefield into civilian locations, and
participation of youth in acts of violence underscore the need to find novel frameworks for …

Game perspective-taking effects on willingness to help immigrants: A replication study with a Spanish sample

J Peña, JF Hernández Pérez - New Media & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study replicated an experiment examining video game character perspective-taking
effects on socio-political opinions with a sample of Spanish participants. Random …

Aplicabilidade e benefícios de softwares e simuladores em processos de ensino-aprendizagem

MS Celestino, VCPN Valente - ETD Educação Temática Digital, 2021 - educa.fcc.org.br
RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo foi o de identificar a aplicabilidade e benefícios de
softwares, processos de simulação e simuladores para a prática educacional em diferentes …

A multi-level, time-series network analysis of the impact of youth peacebuilding on quality peace

LK Taylor, C Bähr - Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Over 60% of armed conflicts re-occur; the seed of future conflict is sown even as a
peace agreement is signed. The cyclical nature of war calls for a focus on youth who can …