News tagged with videogames
US shooting revives debate over videogame violence
The massacre of 26 people, mostly young children, at a US school has revived the perennial debate about the impact of violent videogames on the warped minds of gunmen behind such tragedies.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Excessive daytime sleepiness common in high school students
New research shows that high school students experience excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), with most students sleeping fewer than 7 hours per night.
Health
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Action videogames change brains: study
A team led by psychology professor Ian Spence at the University of Toronto reveals that playing an action videogame, even for a relatively short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention.
Neuroscience
Apr 26, 2012 |
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How media can encourage our better side
(Medical Xpress) -- Violent media -- films, TV, videogames -- can encourage aggression, and lots of research says so. But psychologists haven't spent as much time looking at the ways media with more socially positive content ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 21, 2011 |
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