Inhibition of Addictive Behaviors by Peer-Group Effect in a Conditional Delayed Reward Task
| Autor: | Takashi Sato, NIT, Okinawa College, Japan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4273648 |
| Popis: | In the recent years, the excessive reliance on games and the internet has escalated to pathological levels, especially in adolescents, and is interfering with their lives. This issue can be regarded as one of the delayed reward tasks. In this study, we propose a conditional delayed reward task in which players can get a small reward by continuing to play the game instead of studying, but eventually receive large negative rewards. In order to investigate the cause and countermeasures of this problem, we adopt a reinforcement learning model and focus on the peer-group effect (PGE) in which positive or negative influences given by the group to individuals is one of the ways of inhibiting the problem. Our simulation results showed that in case of the group without the PGE, individuals with a small gamma value (one of the parameters of the reinforcement learning model suggested to correspond to the amount of serotonin in the brain), continued to play the game and almost attained a state of addiction. We also found that, in the condition with the PGE, players who were game dependent in the absence of the PGE, chose studying over gaming. Keywords: Internet gaming disorder; Inhibition of addictive behaviors; Peer-group effect; Conditional delayed reward task; Reinforcement learning Applied Science and Computer Science Publications |
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