Empathy-Teaching Video Games, Chile Pepper Origins, and A Simple Word Swap to Take Control
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Learn about how scientists used video games to teach children empathy; a simple word swap that can help you keep your commitments in check; and an institute in New Mexico where all your favorite chiles came from.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | Today you'll learn about how scientists used video games to teach children empathy, |
| 0:12.0 | a simple word swap that can help you keep your |
| 0:14.0 | commitments in check, and an Institute in New Mexico where all your favorite |
| 0:18.0 | chilies came from. Let's satisfy some curiosity. A team of researchers used |
| 0:22.1 | video games to teach children empathy. |
| 0:25.0 | This is not a drill. |
| 0:26.0 | You love this, Cody, don't you? |
| 0:28.0 | You know, I was so excited about this. |
| 0:30.0 | I saw the headline. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm like, this is going in the podcast I'm a gamer in case anyone I think I think they figured that out |
| 0:37.8 | You got a smart audience. That's true for this study, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison randomly assigned |
| 0:44.6 | 150 middle schoolers to two groups. |
| 0:47.4 | They assigned one video game to each group and had them play the assigned game for two weeks. |
| 0:52.1 | One game was an experimental empathy training game |
| 0:54.5 | called Crystals of Kador. In this game a space exploring robot crashes on an |
| 0:59.4 | unfamiliar planet and you can only repair your spaceship by building emotional |
| 1:03.6 | rapport with the local alien inhabitants. The player does this by |
| 1:07.1 | identifying the type and intensity of emotion the alien's faces are |
| 1:11.1 | displaying whether it's anger, fear, happiness, surprise, disgust, or sadness. |
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