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Very cool. After the stigma of the antisocial impact of game have followed them for decades, I'm glad to see some potential prosocial* impact of games. *: I h

• jcr 11y ago
  For the record, "prosocial" is not a real word in the English language [1], but the phrase "prosocial behavior" [2] is a defined term (albeit somewhat contrived) in behavioral psychology, sociology and related fields. You'd probably want to compare "Prosocial Behavior" to general "Social Behavior" [3], as well as "Antisocial Behavior" [4] and "Asocial Behavior" [5]. To keep things simple, I consider "Prosocial Behavior" to be a combination of empathy, consideration, and kindness being shown towards others. [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/misspelling?term=prosocial http://dictionary.reference.com/misspelling?term=prosocial [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_behavior [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behavior [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality