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# New study suggests games make you more social, not less.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-study-suggests-games-make-you-more-social-not-less/
- Published: 2011-05-03T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:54:14.000Z
- Description: Basement dwellers? Hardly! A new study from UT-Dallas looked at server logs and player interactions in EverQuest II and found that the game was making people more social, not less. But you probably knew that… [via, img]
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Basement dwellers? Hardly! A new study [from UT-Dallas](http://crx.sagepub.com/content/38/1/123.abstract?ref=killscreen.com) looked at server logs and player interactions in *EverQuest II* and found that the game was making people more social, not less. But you probably knew that…

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