An Anxiety-Reducing Game Psychologists Tracy Dennis and Laura O’Toole (2014) found that playing a video game based on a treatment called cognitive bias modification resulted in a decrease in symptoms of anxiety. People earn points when they direct their attention away from anxiety-provoking targets, like the scary cartoon character, and toward the friendly looking characters.
Tracy A. Dennis and Laura J. O’Toole, Clinical Psychological Science, 2 (4), © 2014. Reprinted by SAGE Publications.