Very cool.

After the stigma of the antisocial impact of game have followed them for decades, I'm glad to see some potential prosocial* impact of games.

*: I hadn't even heard or read that word before now. Excellent concept.

For the record, "prosocial" is not a real word in the English language [1], but the phrase "prosocial behavior" [2] is a defined term (albeit somewhat contrived) in behavioral psychology, sociology and related fields.

You'd probably want to compare "Prosocial Behavior" to general "Social Behavior" [3], as well as "Antisocial Behavior" [4] and "Asocial Behavior" [5]. To keep things simple, I consider "Prosocial Behavior" to be a combination of empathy, consideration, and kindness being shown towards others.

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/misspelling?term=prosocial

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_behavior

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behavior

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality

This is very cool. There's a lot of talk in VR about the importance and power of creating empathy for characters, so this really gives the sense that VR can be a great tool for improving how people relate to and treat each other.

>Recent studies have shown that playing prosocial video games leads to greater subsequent prosocial behavior in the real world.

What about the opposite? Does anti-social activity in games lead to anti-social activity in the real world?

I love the extended abstract at the top that includes the principle findings and conclusion. More academic papers should use this format.