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Rachel Kowert, Ph.D is a research psychologist, award-winning author, and globally recognized leader facilitating global policy and product development with non-profit, governmental, and non-governmental agencies for more than 15 years through data-driven research focused on mental health and trust and safety in digital games.
It seems that with every discussion of video games comes the topic of video game addiction. Cue the images of overweight teenage boys with bad posture, huddled over dim computer screens at all hours of the night. But is it time to clutch our collective pearls? After all, addiction to anything is never a good thing, and an addiction to video games seems to be a particularly bad thing, as it has previously been associated with various negative outcomes including reduced sleep (and consequently, increased risk for obesity), declines in school performance, and poorer mental health.
However, some of the top research experts on video game effects, and media addiction are questioning the way we look at video game play as a potentially addictive activity. In an editorial published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, video game addiction was reframed as being far more
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