"As athletes know, to learn any new habit takes a lot of practice. "The three games work by addressing the underlying thought processes that increase self-liking," explains Baldwin. The McGill team's goal was to conduct experimental research that would enable them to develop interventions that could help people feel more secure: i.e. "For people with low self-esteem, negative thought patterns occur automatically and often involuntarily," explains Baldwin, "leading them to selectively focus their attention on failures and rejections." The solution? People with 'automatic' negative personal outlooks need to condition their minds towards positive views and learn to be more accepting of themselves. Comparatively, people who are more secure have a range of automatic thought processes that make them confident and buffer them from worrying about the possibility of social rejection.
Self-esteem difficulties arise from people's self-critical views concerning their characteristics and performances, along with an assumption that others will reject them. Research has also shown that self-esteem is strongly influenced by particular ways of thinking. (Please see below for further game descriptions).Īfter examining past studies on self esteem, the McGill team deduced that people's feelings of insecurity are largely based on worries about whether they will be liked, accepted and valued by their peers and significant others. Publication of research on EyeSpy: The Matrix is forthcoming in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. The team's first research results on Wham! will be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Psychological Science in July. All three games were developed by doctoral students from McGill's Department of Psychology: Jodene Baccus, Stéphane Dandeneau and Maya Sakellaropoulo, under the direction and supervision of Mark Baldwin, an associate psychology professor. In a world-first study, researchers from McGill University's Department of Psychology have created and tested computer games that are specifically designed to help people enhance their self-acceptance.Īvailable for public consultation at the games have catchy names such as Wham!, EyeSpy: The Matrix and Grow Your Chi. Indeed, it is tradecraft that continues to fascinate and draw so many readers to Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.Can computer games help raise self-esteem? Absolutely. Outside of publishing, Mark works with various military and government agencies teaching and explaining espionage ‘tradecraft’, surveillance and investigative procedures. This year, Mark published an updated edition - ‘500 Spy Sites in London’ - this after an extensive research programme and new input by former intelligence officers.
This provided visitors to London with a candid 100-year history of British Intelligence and allowed them to visit many locations associated with the subject. In 2009, Mark authored 'An Insider’s Guide to 150 Spy Sites in London’. Mark has had input and provided guidance to numerous international media productions from film, television and radio to publications featuring intelligence and espionage this from a modern, current, historical and future perspective. It is available on the newsstands in over 50 countries. Eye Spy is subscribed to by over 500 international government agencies and is used as an educational and training publication. This has enabled Eye Spy unique access to information often beyond the reach of media organisations. Through proper, non-political and unbiased reporting, he has secured the cooperation of many government offices, intelligence bodies, security services and military organs. His speciality lies in the working mechanism of the intelligence services and has extensive knowledge and liaisons with many government organisations, senior officials and former intelligence officers. He has worked as an investigative journalist, analyst and espionage writer for 35 years producing over 1,500 reports associated with the subject.
Mark Birdsall is founder and editor of Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine - the world’s only independent newsstand publication devoted to intelligence and its numerous elements.
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