U.S. kids, ages 8 to 11, averaged 3.6 hours a day playing on their digital devices By Laura Sanders September 26, 2018 TIME OUT – Kids who spent less than two hours a day on screens performed better on memory, thinking and language tests than kids who used screens more, a large study finds. Nearly […]
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Editorial ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 06 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00404 Jin-Tao Zhang1* and Matthias Brand2* 1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2Department of General Psychology: Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany Neural Mechanisms Underlying Internet Gaming […]
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Arch Sex Behav. 2018 Sep 18. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1290-8. Vogels EA1, O’Sullivan LF2. Abstract The broad accessibility of online sexually explicit material (SEM) exposes viewers to a wide scope of sexual behaviors. Social concern tends to be heightened over SEM that incorporates highly graphic, “rough” sex. This study assessed the associations among exposure to rough sex […]
Introduction Justin Lehmiller, a regular paid contributor to Playboy Magazine, unconvincingly attempts to debunk the well documented rise in youthful erectile dysfunction with this April, 2018 blog post. Since it was published David Ley and Nicole Prause frequently tweet Lehmiller’s blog post as “proof” that youthful ED rates haven’t changed in the last 30 years. […]
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contains extensive research archives. You can find these via The Main Research Page, which starts with an overview of current research. At the very bottom of that page you can find links to categories of studies, such as Pornography and Adolescents, Porn Use & Sex Addiction, and Internet Addiction. Critiques of Questionable & Misleading Studies/Debunking […]
Front Psychol. 2018 May 16;9:736. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00736. Kimmig AS1,2, Andringa G3, Derntl B1,4,5. Abstract The increasing trend of mass shootings, which were associated with excessive use of violent video games, fueled the debate of possible effects violent video games may have on adolescents and young adults. The aim of this study was to investigate the […]
J Gambl Stud. 2018 Jun 5. doi: 10.1007/s10899-018-9781-z. Molde H1, Holmøy B2, Merkesdal AG2, Torsheim T3, Mentzoni RA3, Hanns D4, Sagoe D3, Pallesen S3. Abstract The scope and variety of video games and monetary gambling opportunities are expanding rapidly. In many ways, these forms of entertainment are converging on digital and online video games and […]
Front Psychiatry. 2018 Aug 24;9:371. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00371. Kim J1, Kang E1. Abstract Internet gaming disorder is associated with abnormal reward processing in the reward circuit, which is known to interact with other brain regions during feedback learning. Kim et al. (1) observed that individuals with internet game overuse (IGO) exhibit altered behavior and neural activity […]
J Behav Addict. 2018 Sep 11:1-9. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.77. Chen L1,2,3, Yang Y2, Su W1,2,3, Zheng L4, Ding C5, Potenza MN3,6,7,8,9. Abstract Background and aims Internet pornography consumption is prevalent among college students and problematic for some, yet little is known regarding the psychological constructs underlying problematic Internet pornography use (PIPU). Drawing on the Interaction of […]
A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website: "The book relates how, through investigative journalism, Mickelwait discovered that one of the world’s biggest websites was knowingly profiting from sex trafficking, and reveals her subsequent fight to
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