But when developers get it right, primal instincts are triggered, helping immerse players in the action.
Symptom severity and persistence triggered help-seeking from a healthcare professional, while non-recognition of seriousness and previous symptom experience could undermine it.
27 One study found that the first cancer symptom triggered help-seeking less often in emergency patients (65.8% vs 86.2%; p<0.01), 26 while another found that the time between first symptom and first presentation was lower for patients presenting as emergencies (median 11.5 vs 49.5 days; p=0.04).
Her weight wasn't "low enough", it seemed, to trigger help.
Together, the results shed light on how contextual factors trigger help motivation, and indicate that different helping effects are primarily mediated by different mechanisms.
Training reduces ignorance and fear, increasing safety to recognize that the victim is not breathing properly, so as to trigger help and start CPR as soon as possible.
Moreover, a recent qualitative study examined help-seeking behavior in people with hearing loss, suggesting that the balance among positive energy and negative stressors play an important role in triggering help-seeking behavior.
Despite a substantial body of evidence on psychosocial factors associated with delay in help-seeking, there is a dearth of literature on behavioural and social factors triggering help-seeking for symptoms which may represent an underlying cancer (15).
Campaigns that attempt to trigger help-seeking or smoking cessation behaviour by proxy in people close to those at heightened risk, rather than targeting the individual themselves may be more effective.
While empathic distress can trigger helping behaviours, 36 when students feel unable to act due to personal or situational circumstances (eg, they have no confidence to speak out due to unequal power hierarchies) anxiety can ensue.
