Flow, social interaction anxiety and salivary cortisol responses in serious games: A quasi-experimental study

Brom, Cyril; Buchtová, Michaela; Šisler, Vít; Děchtěrenko, Filip; Palme, Rupert; Glenk, Lisa Maria

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2014.07.001

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“…They found "robust inhibition" of the areas of introspection during sensori-motor processing. Goleman ( 2007 ) highlighted a signifi cant issue that seems related to fl ow's ability to reduce self-awareness, emphasising the importance of the amygdala during introspection, relating to social-evaluative threat (ST) (Brom et al 2014 ). The amygdala responds to stimuli that are perceived as a risk, and heightened amygdala activity occurs during social emotions (Ruby and Decet 2004 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We are wired to connect as an adaptive function (Lieberman 2013 ), involving the fast acting mirror and spindle cells (Uddin et al 2007 ). We plan, build and wonder about our life story through time, to orchestrate our lives, aware of problems and alert to social-evaluative threats (ST) (Brom et al 2014 ). It is as if effi cient advantage is taken of resting times when other tasks are not being performed, to assess, rehearse, monitor and make plans to adapt our social interactions.…”

Section: A Network For Self-awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a Neurobiological Understanding of Reduced Self-Awareness During Flow: An Occupational Science Perspective

Sadlo

2016

Flow Experience

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Advances in neurobiology, including brain-scanning and physiological measurements, can now be applied to enhance our understanding of reduced self-awareness, one of fl ow's core symptoms. It throws light on optimal experience, since self-forgetting links to fl ow's positive affect, a paradox in such a highly selfaware species. This chapter synthesises empirical studies into self-awareness, and how it is down-regulated during task performance. A breakthrough was the identification of a specifi c neuronal network for self-awareness, discovered during brain mapping of goal-directed tasks. The network becomes active whenever tasks end, rather like a default. Evidence suggests that deep engagement in skilled (fl ow-like) activities dampens the network, relating somewhat to earlier concepts of hypofrontality. An occupational science perspective proposes that participation in complex activities may reduce the weight of our extreme self-awareness. The human propensity to 'occupy' ourselves through a range of activities, such as the arts, can be a major mechanism for stress-reduction. Early twentieth century observations of the restorative function of being occupied transformed into the profession of occupational therapy, arguably originally a kind of 'fl ow therapy'.

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Towards a Neurobiological Understanding of Reduced Self-Awareness During Flow: An Occupational Science Perspective

Sadlo

2016

Flow Experience

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“…Flow has been associated with learning, development of talent, academic performance and creative achievement, regardless of the task or job (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996;Csikszentmihalyi, Rathunde, & Whalen, 1997). In their studies, and Procci, Singer, Levy and Bowers (2012) found that gamebased technologies promote and conjure up flow experiences capable of having a positive effect on the quality of learning and academic performance (Barzilai & Blau, 2014;Brom et al, 2014;Chang, Wu, Weng, & Sung, 2012;Hung, Sun, & Yu, 2015;Sabourin & Lester, 2014).…”

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Gamification in Management Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Hounsell

Rodrigues

Marques

2019

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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Quality of teaching is increasingly important for the success of educational institutions. In this context, gamification is a tool often used to improve the teaching-learning process by helping both teachers and students reach their goals in the short, medium and long term. Given the importance of the topic both in academia and society, this article presents a systematic review of the literature on the use of gamification as a tool to enhance the quality of the teaching process in general, and, in particular, the teaching of management. The study searches the most relevant literature on the application of gamification to educational contexts and describes gamification's main themes and constructs based on a systematic literature review of scholarly articles available in ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases. One of the main results of this study is to describe theoretical approaches to gamification and provide a conceptual model that gathers the contribution of various studies and paves the way for future research.

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“…Thayer and colleagues ( 2009 ) have explained this relationship in their network model: The prefrontal cortex plays an active role in Inverted-u shaped relationship (Peifer et al 2014 ;Tozman et al 2016 ); increase of cortisol in a demand-skill balance-condition (Keller et al 2011a ); no relation (Brom et al 2014 ) HRV-regulation. During mental load, the capacities of the prefrontal cortex are fully used by cognitive functions, and, as a consequence, HRV decreases (Thayer et al 2009 ).…”

Section: The Physiology Of Mental Effortmentioning

confidence: 95%

Experimental Paradigms to Investigate Flow-Experience and Its Psychophysiology: Inspired from Stress Theory and Research

Tozman

Peifer

2016

Flow Experience

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In this chapter, we present new psychological and physiological research paradigms to assess and investigate fl ow-experience. We compare fl ow theory and research with concepts of challenge and threat, as well as with mental effort. By taking a closer look at physiological processes during challenge and threat and during mental effort, we outline physiological measures that might relate to fl owexperience but have not yet been considered by fl ow-research yet. Also, we describe research paradigms from the research-traditions of challenge and threat and mental effort and discuss applications for fl ow-research. Within this chapter, we aim at stimulating experimental research on fl ow-experience for a better understanding of its psychological and physiological mechanisms.

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Flow, social interaction anxiety and salivary cortisol responses in serious games: A quasi-experimental study

Cited by 56 publications

References 73 publications

Towards a Neurobiological Understanding of Reduced Self-Awareness During Flow: An Occupational Science Perspective

Towards a Neurobiological Understanding of Reduced Self-Awareness During Flow: An Occupational Science Perspective

Gamification in Management Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Experimental Paradigms to Investigate Flow-Experience and Its Psychophysiology: Inspired from Stress Theory and Research

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