The Psychological Benefits of Playing Video Games - Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, & Rutger Engels (American Psychologist Journal, January 2014) [Seduction28]

"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions . . . we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favourable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources."

—Benjamin Franklin, “The Morals of Chess”


This is a research paper published on American Psychologist journal Vol. 69, No. 1, 66–78 DOI: 10.1037/a0034857


About the Authors

Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger Engels, Developmental
Psychopathology Department, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud
University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.