Some gamers have reported to misinterpret real life sounds by something from the game. Sometimes these experiences are triggered by activities or objects somehow associated with the game. Follow this link to hear an example of a sound effect of the sword in Zelda. Click here to visit the collection of […]
GTP adventures- How to dig out from the room?
Click here to visit the collection of GTP adventures. For short periods of time after stopping playing some gamers’ thoughts appeared to be fixated with video game contents and they had a lowered cognitive flexibility to switch from virtual to real life tasks. If you want to know more about these experiences […]
Doctoral Researcher Award
I would like to share the good news with you! I was selected as a finalist in the ABTA Doctoral Researcher Award and after giving my presentation about Game Transfer Phenomena, I was awarded 1st place 🙂 I’m very happy because in this transitional period of my life this award really gives […]
The intrusiveness of GTP in Psychology Today
Read the interesting piece by Professor Ira Hyman where he talks about the intrusiveness of GTP. “Video Games Invade the Real World”. When the video game invades your mind and moves into the real world. Turning off the videogame may not end the game. People continue thinking about the game and […]
GTP Adventures- My Mom is a creeper!
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GTP Adventures- Go bananas
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History of GTP – Part 4: My imaginary rifle scope
This cartoon is another experience that encouraged me to research about what today is known as GTP. There was a time when I played Resident Evil 4 quite intensively; it is a great game by the way! One day, I wanted to look at something which was far away but […]
History of GTP – Part 3: Google in the subway
This cartoon is an experience I had a few years back, when I had been using Google to find articles. This experience really made me reflect about how my repetitive and compulsive use of Google bled into my reality. I wanted to know if someone else had experienced something similar […]
History of GTP – Part 2: How everything started
Let me start by going back more than ten years in time, when I was an undergraduate psychology student. At that time, internet was not easily accessible as nowadays. Internet got introduced at my university’s computer lab and many including myself stuck to the screens like leeches. Around that time I […]
History of GTP – Part 1: Deciding the research path
Four years have passed since I started researching about what is now called Game Transfer Phenomena. These last years have been very intensive and time has flown away. Here is a cartoon that portray the start of the GTP journey. In the coming weeks I will tell you more.