Im wondering if cooperative games could be or have been deployed to people in remote areas in order to promote group cohesion, and prevent group disharmony. If anyone has any experience with this, it would be great to have some information regarding the subject.
We have done research suggesting that should work. In some of our studies we have had strangers play cooperatively or competitively in video games and find increases in tit-for-tat or cooperative behavior. In the most relevant study to your concerns (Velez, Mahood, Ewoldsen & Moyer-Guse, 2013), we found that cooperative game play increased cooperation even when outgroups were playing together. In these studies we were using violent games because of the ongoing debate the effects of playing violent games. But John Velez recently extended this work in his dissertation using sports games (a street basketball video game) and found similar effects.
First of all, thank you David for the response. If its possible, could you send me a PDFs of any of those papers mentioned, or your paper per chance. I would be very interested in reading them, as to gain a better understanding of you this research in cooperative game play is performed. Which game namely was used in your study?
Sorry I took so long to get back to you. I've been traveling.
I've attached several papers we've done in this line of research. One of the things I think has been missing in the video game work is studying helping behavior during game play. We are trying to look at this - though it is a difficult behavior to capture. In particular, we are having difficulty coming up with a useful typology of helping behaviors during game play. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks alot David! I look forward to reading them. Ill get back to you with any questions/comments afterwards.
Sorry I'm so late to this topic, but one of the better games which is great for team building is Pandemic (Google it) - I think there is also an app version.
It's players vs game and each player has different roles, much as they do in a team.
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