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Games => Video Games => Topic started by: House of Mustard on October 17, 2003, 08:53:50 PM

Title: Video games cure phobias?
Post by: House of Mustard on October 17, 2003, 08:53:50 PM

Here's another study that I don't neccesarily agree with:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/10/17/videogame.phobias.reut/index.html

I just wonder whether the result is an overall desensitization, rather than a healthy cure of phobias.

Title: Re: Video games cure phobias?
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on October 17, 2003, 09:52:30 PM

what if your fear is of electronic equipment?

Title: Re: Video games cure phobias?
Post by: wolverine_men on October 24, 2003, 03:45:51 PM

Wanna know if the research is correct? Play Op Flashpoint for two hours then go to Iraq. If you can take the real heat then you have your answer.