Jane McGonigal
17 statements across 1 episodes · 12 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2021 by Jane McGonigal · across every show →
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Jan 19, 2021
McGonigal: Children Retain Information Better By Gaming Before Studying, Not After
“If you want kids to retain what they study better, you should have them play video games first, and then do their homework, and then study before they go to sleep, because if you study first, and then as your reward, you get to play games, When you go to sleep…”
Jan 19, 2021 negative
McGonigal: Concussions functionally impair future imagination and dopamine activation
“So there's actually a functional loss in your ability to imagine the future. And then when you do imagine the future, even if you're thinking about things that normally you get, would get you excited, your brain is basically refusing to fire up The pathways th…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: Peer-game benefits should outweigh parental discomfort over on-screen violence
“If there's a game that all your kids, friends are playing, even if it looks a little bit like, Ooh, I don't know.
It's, is there some realistic violence or not?
The benefits they get from playing the same game as their peer group.
Should outweigh whatever y…”
Jan 19, 2021
McGonigal: Combating Misinformation Requires Triggering Emotions Around Facts, Not Pure Reason
“We need to play on people's emotions more because that's how conspiracy theories work. It's how propaganda works. It's all based on emotion. So we can't just talk, you can't just reason your way out of that. You just have to, you have to trigger the emotions a…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: Playing peer-group games gives kids social confidence and cultural currency
“First of all, there's a cultural currency to playing the games that your peers are playing, and one of the big benefits that we know kids get is that kind of social confidence when they are in the culture as their peers.”
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Jan 19, 2021 negative
McGonigal: Corporate Gamification Manipulates Users Against Their Own Interests
“When we talk about gamification, usually what we're talking about are people who are, you know, Being, being motivated to do something they don't want to do. Whether it's like work, work harder, buy more stuff, pay longer attention, or engage more in something…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: Playing Tetris before sleep reduces trauma flashbacks and rumination
“Playing a game right before bed will essentially hijack the attention center and especially the visual centers. If it's a game, that's very visual. I mean, Tetris is like the golden game and in clinical trials, when they studied this effect, it's like Tetris i…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: SuperBetter Has Helped Over One Million People Recover from Trauma
“And that was the genesis of A game super better that I played for my own healing and that has now helped more than a million people recover from symptoms of traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety chronic pain, and other sort of challenges that we may stru…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: Articulating In-Game Skill Development Unlocks Real-World Transfer
“People who can talk about that, they tend to bring those skills to their work, to their learning, to their relationships, to their hobbies and all you have to do to get somebody to transfer the benefits of games to real life is just have that conversation, and…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: People Must Trust Expert Systems Rather Than Rely On Intuition
“We probably shouldn't think for ourselves is, is part of the problem. I mean, we do, we need to have trust. There needs to be trust in some expert or external system. I mean, if you're always just sort of trusting what you think, your brain is going to get you…”
Jan 19, 2021 positive
Jan 19, 2021 positive
McGonigal: Every video game builds transferable adaptability and growth mindset
“The number one thing we know, any game that you love, I don't care if it's League of Legends, it's Fortnite, it's Candy Crush, whatever, whatever you feel drawn to we know that there is a transferable benefit, which is you get better at learning new things. At…”