Rasha Alsaidi and Robert Duncan from the York College Transformative Games Initiative presented a paper at the York College Research Conversations series. The talk was sponsored in part by the Office of Undergraduate Research and the TENSOR Scholar’s Program in Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Alsaidi presented data that addressed decision making in college freshmen. According to Alsaidi, freshmen tend to ignore the source of information when the content is difficult to understand. Duncan presented follow-up data from lab member Xin Lin, who demonstrated high school students could learn to improve their decision making for difficult choices if they were presented using classic game mechanics.
