Do video games promote the development of social skills?

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Published: Nov 4, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.989
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video games social support sense of belonging

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Brigite Micaela Henriques
Professora Assistente no Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes

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The game has been always present in different cultures and civilizations. With the new digital technologies, the human being began to experience new ways of feeling, thinking, acting and interacting, using the machine as a means of communication ... another way of being in and in society. According to several authors, video games are considered an instrument of socialization which promotes the development of social skills of the subject. Therefore, we can say that playing video games with a group facilitates social contact and social interactions between individuals, through the exchange of knowledge about games and their equipment, and this activity usually involves cooperation between players.

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Micaela Henriques, B. (2017). Do video games promote the development of social skills?. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 203–212. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.989
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): MONOGRAPH NO. 2. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.
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