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lhsi writes:

A study looked at how often people cooperate in a prisoners dilemma game, finding that those who played computer games were more likely to cooperate. The authors found that this link was just with gamers, "none of the other computer time use variables (including time spent on social media, browsing internet, working etc.) are significantly related to cooperation rates."

We conclude that participants in our study who spent more time playing computer games display more prosocial behavior. It is important to note that we cannot make any claims regarding causality. It is both possible, given our results, that more prosocial people self-select into playing more computer games as it is possible that playing computer games "makes" people more prosocial.

1. "lhsi" - https://soylentnews.org/~lhsi
2. "how often people cooperate in a prisoners dilemma game" - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0094099

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