Experiencing other people’s lives will bring pleasure? Why "Script Kill" attracts young people
On March 22, in a "script-killing" store in Xi'an, players used the designed script to incarnate different characters within a few hours, experience a story together, and start a "masked" life.
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One of the criteria for judging whether a person is mentally healthy is whether there is a good psychological support system and whether there is a harmonious interpersonal relationship.
Many "script-killing" players have a good feeling for each other because they spend a few hours in the game together. After returning to reality from the game, they will still keep in touch, call each other by the characters in the play, and will meet in a team to play together. A script.
From this perspective, it can be said that "Script Kill" provides a good psychological support system for many players.
However, if the script is selected incorrectly, it will also have a negative impact on physical and mental health.
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A netizen who often plays "Script Kill" said that in the "Script Kill" game, you can experience a completely different life. Script Kill is a place like a "Worry-Relief Grocery Store". You can be anyone. In other people's stories, forget yourself briefly and live another life.
This is an immersive experience, and experiencing the lives of others in the script can also bring pleasure to oneself.
In the world of "script-killing", players need to substitute themselves into the characters in the play, enter the game situation from the first perspective, and understand the motivation behind each decision they make to play the role.
The "2021 Entity Script Killing Consumption Insight Report" shows that more than 70% of "Script Killing" players are under the age of 30, and more than 40% of them will play more than once a week.
Why does experiencing the lives of others bring pleasure to oneself?
Why are "brain burning" games favored by people?
What is the real charm of the "script killing" with its own social functions?
With these questions, the reporter interviewed Qiu Yujia, the attending physician at Peking University Sixth Hospital.
"Script Kill": "Play House" for Adults
"Script Kill" originated from a very popular party game "Murder Mystery" in European and American bourgeois family gatherings. Players play the role of the script, search for evidence from the crime scene and discuss and communicate with other people to solve the case by reasoning. Find out the real culprit.
The "script-killing" game that was spread to the country was initially based on reasoning and solving cases, and the players pursued the "brain-burning" stimulation in the process of seeking the truth.
With the expansion of the market, the types of scripts for "script killing" have become more abundant, with emotional scripts whose main purpose is to interpret the storyline. In this type of "script killing" games, players are pursuing immersive emotional experience. , An attractive plot and "good cry" script will attract more players.
Qiu Yujia believes that from the perspective of neurobiology, all attractive things can mobilize dopamine secretion in the brain, such as delicious food, beautiful scenery, and good books or movies.
The "script killing" of reasoning requires players to use rigorous logic to analyze and reason, remove layers of fog, and solve the mystery. This process can stimulate the reward system in the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain, leading to increased dopamine, and thus increasing dopamine. People feel relaxed and happy.
In the emotional "script killing", players can dominate their lives as a role through interpretation of the script, and this sense of control will give people a sense of accomplishment.
At the same time, players experience a different kind of life in the role and experience different life processes, which will produce a feeling of "self-realization", and the pursuit of self-realization is a high-level psychological need of human beings.
Qiu Yujia pointed out that whether it is a "brain-burning" crime-solving script or an emotional script, the scene setting of the "script-killing" game is in a safe environment. The interaction also follows a certain logic, and there are traces to follow.
It has no conflicts of interest in real life, and no unknown risks. It not only satisfies the human psychology of "curious hunting", but also provides a new type of social mode that is safe and controllable without conflicts of interest.
In Qiu Yujia's view, adults playing "Script Killing" are actually the same as children playing "Play House", but "Script Killing" requires a higher level of intellectual reserves and is a social game that matches the intelligence of adults.
However, not everyone can get pleasure from the "script-killing" game, and it is difficult for those "social terrorists" to enjoy it.
Qiu Yujia explained that what kind of stimulus will make which people feel happy is determined by the individual's genetic susceptibility. At the same time, it is also related to the individual's growth experience, personality characteristics, and physical and mental state. Let many people "on the head", but it will be unbearable for claustrophobic patients.
"Script Killing" and Psychodrama Therapy
If the script chosen by the player is close to certain events experienced in his life, the player can reflect on his life and the interpersonal relationship with the surrounding people in the role-playing, get inspired, and be able to change his inner emotions or The emotions accumulated in the past events are expressed through the role played to achieve the effect of emotional catharsis. Then the player obtains not only pleasure, but also psychological growth in the "Script Kill" game, and sometimes even achieves the effect of "Psychodrama Therapy" .
Qiu Yujia introduced that "Psychodrama Therapy" is a group psychotherapy method founded by Austrian psychiatrist Moreno in 1921.
Psychodrama does not have a fixed script. How to perform it depends entirely on the visitor’s own troubles, what events he wants to show, and his inner feelings.
Psychodrama therapy stimulates the spontaneity and creativity of the individual.
Visitors can deduce a specific event, such as a traumatic event they have experienced before, or they can deduce their attitudes and feelings when experiencing an event.
Psychodrama creates an environment and opportunity for visitors to perceive and experience their inner world. It can help visitors understand their own inner state, understand the psychological conflicts in the subconscious, perceive their true emotions and needs, and break through inherent thinking. Look at things and the relationship between people from a more perspective.
People who receive psychodrama therapy may have some kind of mental illness, or they may just encounter major problems in life, such as husband and wife relationship problems or parent-child relationship problems.
With the help of psychodrama therapy, it is possible for visitors to achieve self-psychological growth, resolve conflicts, and improve interpersonal relationships.
Although most of the "script killing" scripts do not have the effect of psychodrama therapy, but this kind of game can allow players to communicate and interact, thereby enhancing mutual feelings, which will affect the psychology of each participant. To a benign effect.
Qiu Yujia said that one of the criteria for judging whether a person is mentally healthy is whether there is a good psychological support system and whether there is a harmonious interpersonal relationship.
Many "script-killing" players have a good feeling for each other because they spend a few hours in the game together. After returning to reality from the game, they will still keep in touch, call each other by the characters in the play, and will meet in a team to play together. A script.
From this perspective, it can be said that "Script Kill" provides a good psychological support system for many players.
However, Qiu Yujia also reminded that although "Script Killing" is fun, you must be careful when choosing a script.
You should choose healthy and gentle scripts, and try to avoid those with horrible plots or those that will bring high-intensity stimulation, because a plot that is too intense and exciting will have after-effects and have a negative impact on mental health.
Long-term high-intensity stimulation will also affect physical and mental health.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Xia Jin Source: China Youth Daily
Version 08 on September 28, 2021