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Neuroscience of Gaming:
Ethical Issues
Martha J. Farah
SfN Social Issues Round Table
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Two main ethical questions
• Really work?
• Bad for people, individually or as a society?
• Answers to both will depend on specifics
– game, targeted ability, user
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Attention
Memory
Executive Function
Mood
Social skills Desensitization
Children
Non-elderly adults
Elderly
Developmentally impaired
Brain-injured
Dementia
Social-emotional disorders
Prodromal
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Do they work?
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There is evidence that they do, but...
• Not all trials are of equal quality
– Placebo
– Power
• Isolated studies are hard to interpret, replicability issues
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There is evidence that they do, but...
• Many of the leading researchers in this field have vested interests
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There is evidence that they do, but...
• How generalizable are the gains?
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There is evidence that they do, but...
• Remember, effectiveness is specific to games, psychological targets, users
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Assuming they work... (or even if they don’t)
• Are there negative effects?
– Griffiths presentation
– Broader issues:
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Policy recommendations
• Not one-size-fits-all
– Different targets (incl pure entertainment) and different populations require different policies
• Policy =/= legislation
– Consumer education
– Professional best practices
– Research, well-designed, powered, registered
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• Thank you!