We presented our symposium “The Relevance of Game Transfer Phenomena in the context of Gaming Disorder” at the International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) on 22 June 2022, hosted by Nottingham Trent University. The conference was an excellent opportunity to share some of the work we have been doing on […]
Join me and my panellists on the 22nd of June in the symposium The Relevance of Game Transfer Phenomena in the context of Gaming Disorder presented at the 7th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA 2022) organized by the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA) and hosted at […]
Join us for the symposium “Game Transfer Phenomena: An Emerging Field of Study into the Impact of Digital Imagery and Simulations” presented at the British Psychology Society Cyberpsychology Virtual Conference. The 2021 conference theme is Future Directions, Challenges and Opportunities in Cyberpsychology. Date and time: 7th of July at 3:05 […]
For the first time, we have presented clinical cases of Game Transfer Phenomena at a conference. My dear colleague Alex Basche, psychotherapist specialising in problematic media use, and I presented the cases of three young males (10 to 16 years old) who experienced auditory phenomena such as hearing sounds, voices […]
I was recently interviewed by Dr Flavio Escribano from GECON.es (in Spanish). It was a rewarding discussion, on the overview of Game Transfer Phenomena and on envisioning the potential that applying the GTP framework can have for learning using video games. GECON.es event announcement.
I recently visited the American School in Paris for a psychology event. Sonata Sardinha, Learning Specialist and Psychologist and Christopher Friendly, Psychology and History Teacher did an amazing job organising the event and helping the students to consolidate their projects. The energy of the students and the staff was contagious, […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019! I hope this year you give yourself time to do at least one of the things that fill your life with happiness, but you have postponed for a while! 2018 was the year where I focused my energy on spreading the knowledge of GTP among my […]
The TAG team (Teen Advisory Group) at the Science World at Telus World of Science in Vancouver have the mission to organize events for teens called SWEET (Science World Extravagant Evening for Teens). In November, I was invited to give a talk to young people “The Psychology of Video Games & Why The […]
Playing video games as a novel visuomotor activity has been used in experimental studies by Stickgold et al. (2000) [1], Wamsley et al. (2010) [2] and Kusse, et al. (2012)[3] to understand the continuity between awake and sleep experiences, memory consolidation and learning. These studies have focused on investigating “hypnagogic […]
If you are in the amazing Vancouver join the event Sweet: Mind Craft at the Science World at TELUS World of Science. Teens even 13-18 years old. I will talk about the psychology of video games & Game Transfer Phenomena. Get your tickets in Eventbrite