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This is a freakonomics-type post. I stumbled upon a news article of an economics student’s research who found that for every minute of playing video games corresponded to a 0.4% decrease in personal income.
The nature of his data is from Statistics Canada’s general social survey. So we can’t make a lot of inferences or get [...]

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Dr. Gary Marcus wrote a blog post on the Psychology Today website about his opinion of why a lot of people like to play Guitar Hero. He argued that the sense of control is what makes these games so good and popular.

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School has started for many and will have to adjust their habits for the rigors of schooling and homework. That also means managing their time with video games. So I found this nifty article from Marjut Wallenius whom, by my knowledge, is one of the few concerned about the interaction between parenting (at least an [...]

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When this news article drop in the inbox, I was perpelxed as to how this study slipped past my alerts. It was Springerlink… again. Would not be so much trouble if the articles were arranged in chronological order or that the left side of the menu have more options and drop boxes? The search engine [...]

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I’m reluctantly considering taking the GRE again, after hearing the advice from one of my potential grad advisor. Given my verbal score is 450, quantitative score is 630 and the writing score is 4.5, it just means that I’m at the borderline of being accepted. However, is it an indicator of academic success? Must I [...]

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This post is what I picked at the 2009 CPA convention in Montreal.

I am quite surprised that there are psychological studies on video games in Canada, but none have a passionate focus as do the Americans, IMO. Speaking of passion, Marc-André Lafrenière and colleagues from UQAM have applied their theories of passion unto massively multiplayer online [...]

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This post is what I picked up at 2009 CPA convention in Montreal.

Motivation and personality isn’t my research portfolio, I like to see what pushes a person around at the mesosystem (interactions with friends or people on the internet, etc.) to exosystem (e.g. mass media or watching anime) level (see Bronfenbrenner’s). Emily Orr and Craig [...]

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This post is what I picked up at the 2009 CPA convention in Montreal.

My first CPA convention was rather less than exciting, the subjects there are very broad and I guess I would have been more excited if I were in a topic-specific conference. Nevertheless and statistically speaking, you will at least find a subject that [...]

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At the time of the initial posting, I don’t have the article yet, but google alert went hot with this news. So the only thing I managed to get is the abstract and news. Andrew Przybylski (grad student) and Dr. Richard Ryan (his graduate advisor/supervisor) of the Self-determination lab of University of Rochester had previous [...]

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On Septembre 11 was a day of mourning across the world. For me, it was a very busy and tiresome day as I received tons of alert e-mails on newly published articles (4 articles!) and a game news article from The Escapist who linked to gamecyte about researchers’ paper on the psychology of achievement as [...]

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