Positive news for gamers, and their parents. Hours in front of the glowing box hammering zombies as a youngster can make you more creative.
A test of 491 12-year-olds found that the more they played video games, they more creative they were. The research by Linda A Jackson, a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, has been published in current issue of journal Computers in Human Behavior.
The correlation held good for girls and boys and across ethnicities. The type of computer game didn't matter either - games classed as violent or interpersonal produced the same positive correlation with creativity.
"The more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories" Jackson said in a press release.
Playing with cell phones, the Internet and computers (other than for video games) was unrelated to creativity, the study found.
A test of 491 12-year-olds found that the more they played video games, they more creative they were. The research by Linda A Jackson, a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, has been published in current issue of journal Computers in Human Behavior.
The correlation held good for girls and boys and across ethnicities. The type of computer game didn't matter either - games classed as violent or interpersonal produced the same positive correlation with creativity.
"The more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories" Jackson said in a press release.
Playing with cell phones, the Internet and computers (other than for video games) was unrelated to creativity, the study found.
source: The Register
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