022 - Research on Addiction and Aggression

Turns out that doing science is hard. And doing science involving people is particularly tricky and comes with all kinds of caveats. And then doing research on humans involving something as diverse and personal as video game experiences is even more tricky. In this episode of the podcast I talk about all that with my guest, Malte Elson, a behavioral psychologist working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. He has spent a lot of time thinking about researching video games and has a lot of thoughts about the state of research on things like video game violence and video game addiction. It's a cool talk that should prepare you to discuss and form your own opinions about these popular topics. About the podcast:Subscribe in iTunes herePodcast RSS FeedPrevious episodesVisit Malte Elson's websiteAudio Credits:"Robot Motivation" by The Polish Ambassador, licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0"Over Under" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.co