Video Games Are Now Used In Therapy

With the help of hired scientists, game developers have employed many psychological techniques to make their products as unquittable as possible.

• First, players are enticed with easy and pred...

Many apps like Tinder are designed and positioned as a game, while not being called so. People who are out of the game seem to quench their thirst about it by looking at how others play it and playing it for them too.

Many dating app users have ‘dating app fatigue’ or ‘swiping fatigue’ and...

Placebos are often used in clinical drug trials to determine how well a potential medicine will work.

• There are two different groups of subjects in a placebo-controlled trial - one receives the experimental drug and the other the placebo. Neither researchers nor subjects know which ...