Video Game Addiction, Not Video-Driven Violence, is the Problem
<p>Presidential candidates from both <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/rfk-jr-cites-prozac-video-games-for-rise-in-mass-shootings-not-guns" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">major</a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/08/05/trump-blames-video-games-for-shootings-but-research-doesnt-support-that/?sh=546dd72d11dc" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">parties</a> have blamed violent video games for contributing to mass shootings, a notion <a href="https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/49/8/1.2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">shared</a> by many Americans. Yet researchers at the Stanford <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/05/02/stanford-researchers-scoured-every-reputable-study-link-between-video-games-gun-violence-politics-mental-health-dupee-thvar-vasan/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Brainstorm Lab</a> were the latest to study all of the available evidence and conclude that nobody has demonstrated a link between playing video games and violent behavior.</p>
<p>While we’re concerned about the non-existent connection between playing video games and hurting others, we’ve been ignoring the very real problem of video game addiction.</p>
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