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Feb 3 7 tweets 3 min read
With green having a calming effect and red increasing arousal, anger and negative emotions. Picking #stocks can seem like a fun lottery of scratching off the winning ticket; celebratory confetti drops from the top of the screen for the new users’ first three
liveinternet.ru/users/entourag… investments. But just as people can lose a lot of money gambling at the casino, the same thing can happen when you trade stocks and bonds – sometimes with disastrous consequences, such as last year when a Robinhood user died by suicide after
writeablog.net/entourageedge/… mistakenly believing that he’d lost US$750,000. I study how people behave inside game worlds and design classroom games. Using gamelike features to influence real-life actions can be beneficial, such as when a health app uses rewards
leasedadspace.com/members/surga5… and rankings to encourage people to move more or eat healthier food. But there’s a dark side too, and so-called gamification can lead people to forget the real-world consequences of their decisions.
lessons.drawspace.com/post/239863/ba… Generally speaking, games – whether played on a board, among children or with a computer – are voluntary activities that are structured by rules and involve players competing to overcome challenges that carry no risk outside of their virtual world.
forums.qrecall.com/user/profile/2… The reason games are so captivating is that they challenge the mind to learn new things and are generally safe spaces to face and overcome failure.

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