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The surprising effects of video games with Ash Brandin

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Why Are Parents So Allergy to Video Games?

There were a handful of studies particularly in like the early 2000s that really shaped kind of the narrative and public consciousness around video games. But since those studies have come out they have since been reviewed by other researchers who found them to be not necessarily valid or misinterpreted. We as a society do not tend to value leisure for leisure's sake, he says. And it's easier to blame something like video games than look at what we might be complicit in or doing as a society that might be adding to problems.

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