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“heavy video-game playing may release dopamine, which is thought to be involved with addictive behaviors.”

— David B. Agus

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act. —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI”

— Susan Cain

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our…

— Candace Pert

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing.…

— Joshua Mohr

“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Perhaps too much is said in universities about how "exciting" it is to think. Thinking undoubtedly has its excitements and satisfactions, but these feelings…

— Glenn Tinder

“In the simulator, upsetting events from the past play again and again, which unfortunately strengthens the neural associations between an event and its painful…

— Rick Hanson

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start. Fear and…

— Stewart Stafford

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

— Gyorgy Kepes

“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts…

— Thomas Gilovich