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Gamers not social misfits, after all |
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Written by Danrok
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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From Reg Hardware: It's official - gamers are not socially inept, even those who arguably spend far too much time gaming. That's the key finding of a research programme into so-called problem gaming conducted by Victoria University psychology Honours graduate Dan Loton.
Loton wanted to investigate gaming addiction, to see whether it could prove as dangerous to health and wellbeing as addictions to gambling, booze or drugs. To that end, he devised an online questionnaire designed to probe gamers' personalities. [More...] [Comments...] |