Hi everyone, it's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology.

This episode was recorded live during APA 2019, our annual convention that was held in Chicago

this year. I was away on maternity leave during that time, so my colleague Dr. Russ Schilling was a guest host.

We hope you enjoy the episode. Welcome. This is Speaking of Psychology from the APA convention.

I'm the host for this session, Russell Schilling. I'm the chief scientific officer for APA,

and I'll let my two guests introduce themselves my name is

Caitlin Ruse I am a fourth year PhD student at Michigan Technological University

studying higher level cognition in games my name is Sean Dordy I'm an

associate professor at Emory Riddle Aeronautical University in the Human Factors in

Behavioral Neuroscience Department.

I am also currently the program chair for Division 21 here at APA, which is the applied experimental and engineering psychology division.

We'll leave it there.

Okay.

And today what we're going to be discussing is the psychology of e-sports, why it's

relevant to psychology and why we should care as psychologists about e-sports. And so I'll start

out with just asking that question of our panelists. So why should psychologists be concerned with

these sports? Psychologists should be concerned with e-sports for many reasons. Regardless of what

discipline you're a part of, we have many people of many disciplines here at AP. Psychologists should be concerned with esports for many reasons. Regardless of what discipline

you're a part of, we have many people, many disciplines here at APA. And so whether it's

the mental part, so disorders, abnormal psychology, stress management, performance psychology,

coming from sports psychology, development of a culture, communication, team dynamics.

There are many facets of e-sports that I think are fascinating, if not maybe confusing to a lot of psychologists,

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